Andreas J. Kostenberger Quotes
The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I am married.
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After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
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I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'
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Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
