Joanne Liu Quotes
Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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Government is waging war against the people.
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'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series.
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Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
