John James Audubon Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.
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To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.
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I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.
