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’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
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Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
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It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
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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.
