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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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
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In the 1970s, you couldn't do a television show from Las Vegas because you couldn't find a sponsor. In my view, Las Vegas has become the place to perform versus any other place in the world.
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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
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A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.
