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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Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.
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It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
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A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
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I was raised right, I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners!
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
