Jason Molina Quotes
I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I'm a normal guy.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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Labor’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.
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Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.
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(on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.
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The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
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Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
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I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.
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I was very much not a follower of labels in school. If anything, I was labeled 'uncool.'
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I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.
