La Monte Young Quotes
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They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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My characters are not plastic.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
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You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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I thought I got (Li) at the line anyway.
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When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
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Draw a straight line and follow it.
