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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In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.
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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
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I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.
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When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
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You are the one and only ever you.
