Gabriel Basso Quotes
I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, 'I have found it! Eureka!'
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As a general rule-never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child's attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
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Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
