John Van Hamersveld Quotes
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.
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I love to perform live.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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I would say my best decision I ever made was to pursue my dream and give it my all. Thankfully, I have not yet made really bad decisions, I'm the kind of person to play it on the safe side.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.
