John Zorn Quotes
That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.
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If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
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I was a class clown since second grade.
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I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.
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There is pow'r, there is pow'rIn a band of workingmen.When they stand hand in hand,That's a pow'r, that's a pow'rThat must rule in every land -One Industrial Union Grand.
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That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.
