Robert Frost Quotes
I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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I don't think my father was my mentor.
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We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
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I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.
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Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company - what a wonderful woman.
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By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
