Olaf Stapledon Quotes
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
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I really like children to watch my movies.
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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Oops, I did it again, didn't I? My shit's harder to figure out than what Britney's tit size is.
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And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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Nobody, no family, is above the law.
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I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.
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And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.
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I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.
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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
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Twitter has a several-hour advantage in getting information.
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
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When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.
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Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
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I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.
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When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.
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Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
