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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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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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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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
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Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.
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I'd like to take a look at the process and see how it goes, ... It is not my inclination to do anything that would be divisive to the party.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.
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There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
