Michael Anti Quotes
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I don't like possessions.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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The law is cruel.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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Oh, and just one more point that a lot of Americans don’t know. We’re so used to, ‘Oh colonialism,’ no, the Boers, the ones who are there, were there before the Zulus, they got there first. The Zulus came down like a hundred years later. I mean we are witnessing a straight out genocide.
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I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
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A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.
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Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
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The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere.
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The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.
