Alice Steinbach Quotes
What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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Let's not forget, I got divorced.
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My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
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I accomplished something big and that's a memory I will never forget.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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My purpose is far greater than my pain.
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I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
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The wicked are always ungrateful.
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We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
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I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
