Erik Larson Quotes
I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.
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We shouldn't use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
