Thurston Moore Quotes
I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
Quotes to Explore
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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I hate birthdays.
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.
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I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
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The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day-wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'
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The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.
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It was a mighty while ago.
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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
