Kanan Makiya Quotes
Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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My mentors are those individuals who saw potential in me long before I perceived it in myself – or who challenged me to do more – the people who helped guide me toward excellence.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.
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I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.
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Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
