Alan Seeger Quotes
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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America is a meritocracy.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
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I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous.