Tom Araya Quotes
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	What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.   
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	I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.   
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	I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.   
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	People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.   
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	A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.   
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	What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?   
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	I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.   
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	Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.   
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	Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.   
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	The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.   
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	It is important not to trust people too much.   
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	I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.   
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	Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.   
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	I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.   
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	When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.   
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	I can't control what people think. They know who I am.   
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	A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.   
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	People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.   
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	I was worried a bit at the beginning because I didn't know how the situation was. Once the ATP wanted to do the tournament, I realised there was no risk at all. I'm very sorry about what happened. It's not easy to be here knowing so many people were killed very near from here.   
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	'How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?' I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.   
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	What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.   
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	Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.   
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	Before being Christians or Jews or Muslims, before being Americans or Russians or Africans, before being generals or priests, rabbis or imams, before having visible or invisible disabilities, we are all human beings with hearts capable of loving,   
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	People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					