Eugene V. Debs Quotes
Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I'm a slow starter.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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The hardest thing about becoming famous is trying not to lose yourself. The thing I like best about it is the recognition of my work.
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I sometimes joke - but the joke is not so wrong - that after my time in East Germany, I could either afford therapy to work through what happened under the Communists or move to New York.
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Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.
