Hal Borland Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
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Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.
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In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music. In 'Hail to the Thief,' most but not all of the words can be decoded after a few listens.
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When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
