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.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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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.
Parker Young
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Nancy Gibbs
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I hate birthdays.
Zane Grey
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
Kate Baldwin
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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.
Harbhajan Singh
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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.
Baha'u'llah
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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.
Orla Brady
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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.
Sally Yates
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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.
Zooey Deschanel
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel Gompers
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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.
Quincy Jones
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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.
Irwin Shaw
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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.
Garth Brooks
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'
Tanith Lee
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And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.
Keith Carradine
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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Charles Eastman
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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot hasn't changed for centuries. I shouldn't need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not.
David Fahrenthold
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The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.
Peter O'Toole
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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.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth