Paul Auster Quotes
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
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Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.
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There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.
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If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.
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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
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Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.
