Balian of Ibelin Quotes
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning-and we will not be free again until we get it back.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.
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This is one of the toughest, most complex pieces of legislation that we've tried to put together in our lifetime.
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It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that all the record companies combined used to put out around 3,000 albums in a year. Now they put out something like 30,000!
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World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!
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A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.
