S.C. Stephens Quotes
Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
