Stone Gossard Quotes
On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
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Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
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In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
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On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
