Wendell Berry Quotes
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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It is a duty of everyone to cooperate and help each other.
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I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.
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I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.
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I absolutely love talking to all of my fans.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
