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 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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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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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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You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
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Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.
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People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
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I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
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All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
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Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.
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To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
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The apparent widespread abuse of loans provided through the Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act is nothing short of an outrage.
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You are the one and only ever you.
