John Searles Quotes
There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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I'm a loner.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.
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Roots. Right now I'm still in love with playing ska and reggae music, but I don't think twice about playing anything that feels right to me.
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Living more intensely, more lovingly, with more camaraderie, that is in itself resistance.
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There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
