John Benjamin Hickey Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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I no longer limit myself.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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Was glänzt, ist für den Augenblick geboren;das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
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Every man prays in his own language.
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
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'Oh, Christ! We're all gonna die. You seen the kinds'a casualty lists she comes up with?'
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I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.
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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.
