Steve Toltz Quotes
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
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I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.
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In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
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Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.
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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
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People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
