Steve Clevenger (Steven Scott Clevenger) Quotes
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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I have no family to take care of.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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My work is not directly about the social or political.
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This mandate that I seek is about continuity and sustainability against disruption and stagnation, about moving forward versus regressing. We have to safeguard what we have already achieved. We cannot put at risk what we have; we cannot gamble away our future.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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You go year to year and you can only control what you can control.
