Sebastian Junger Quotes
I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
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Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!
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I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
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Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of religious beliefs. But the unique thing about Christianity is that it is so amorphous and not reductive to culture or place or anything. It's extremely malleable.
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I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
