S. R. Nathan Quotes
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
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I get depressed at airports.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
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My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.
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At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.
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The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?
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The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
