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 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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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful, and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.
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The public health threats are extremely difficult to find. The diseases that can be passed from animals to humans are primarily of concern for people that work directly with livestock.
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I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
