John Hillcoat Quotes
I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.
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A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.
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When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved
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Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
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I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
