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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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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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his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible.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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That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
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A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.
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Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
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The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.
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If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
