Nathan Eldon Tanner Quotes
Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
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Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.
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Deus est omnium rerum causa immanens, non vero transiens
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.
