Nancy Tillman Quotes
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.
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It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
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I think I do my own thing. I start my own trends. I see a lot of girls doing what I've been doing. Pink. Nobody wore pink, and now everybody wears it. It's flattering.
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My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
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I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling.
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Every single person is the star of their own story, which means that every single person goes through the gamut of emotional experiences that we’re trying to get on stage and tell.
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I barely leave my cage, my house.
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Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.
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You are the one and only ever you.
