Sxip Shirey (Gene "Sxip" Shirey) Quotes
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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I'm very humble.
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
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So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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We can hope to be fortunate—but we should strive to be wise.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.
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In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
