Valerius Geist Quotes
Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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I hate birthdays.
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It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.
