La Monte Young Quotes
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
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I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
