Paul Kane Quotes
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask – obviously – but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
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Music is about the performance.
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask – obviously – but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.
