J. Allen Boone Quotes
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
J. Allen Boone
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
Hamish Bowles
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
Dan Rather
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. Lawrence
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
S. E. Hinton
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The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Samuel Johnson
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Oscar Wilde
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde
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Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica.
Pat Buchanan
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
Larry Niven
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Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
Cormac McCarthy
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But I respectfully suggest, Major, that the responsibility is slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether to take the nation to war alone, or to take the nation to war part way, or to take the Nation to work half-way. That is a real tough decision.
Joe Biden
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Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.
Barbara Holland
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The dominance of an ideology is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant political discourse: this means that often they live even their revolt against domination of the system within the frame of reference of the dominant legitimacy.
Nicos Poulantzas
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I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, three hours. I'm a night owl. I'm usually in the studio at night working, and then I get home, I'm on my phone looking at Instagram pictures and buying stuff.
Christine Flores
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We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.
J. Allen Boone
