Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) Quotes
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
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People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
