John Clare Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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New York ladies all look immaculate.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size.
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My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.
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religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.
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I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.
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Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
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And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
