Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.
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But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
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That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.
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If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
