Howard Blum Quotes
When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds.
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Who needs an umbrella in the rain?" she said, and stepped into the car.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
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When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
