Eugen Herrigel Quotes
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.
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I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way, it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.
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I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
