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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I looked like a boy for a long time. Now I feel like a woman.
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The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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The tradition you were born into was your home, Brother Wayne told me, but as Gandhi once wrote, it should be a home with the windows open so that the winds of other traditions can blow through and bring their unique oxygen. “It’s good to have wings,” he would say, “but you have to have roots, too."
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There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
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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.
