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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Maybe the Lord's word is decisive on that: The poor are always with us. You know, you'll never run out of people, you can help.
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I think we've been doing it for a while now that I can sort of imagine her voice in my head when I'm writing these lyrics and creating these melodies. It's a really cool thing to imagine what it's going to sound like and then make it become reality. I always find that Leigh meets that reality and exceeds it, or adds to it.
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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.
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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.
