Albert Benjamin Simpson Quotes
Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.
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There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
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Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.
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Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.
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Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?