Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) Quotes

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

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• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Think
  • Game
  • Fans

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Want
  • Lose

• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Afraid
  • Republican
  • Sides

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • Kid

• If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Push

• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • Romantic

• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Good
  • Together
  • Team

• The logical axioms are the principle of all truth. These posit an existence towards which all cognition serves. Logic is a law which must be obeyed, and man realises himself only in so far as he is logical. He finds himself in cognition. All error must be felt to be crime. And so man must not err. He must find the truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Logic

• Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Experience

• I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Trouble

• I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Different

• Innovators are inevitably controversial.

  

  Eva Le Gallienne
  • Controversial
  • Innovators

• We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher