Paul Auster Quotes
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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I try to read 20 books a year.
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I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.
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I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
