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 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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Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.
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Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
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Lyrics are what I tend to tear hair out over and they're where I tend to feel weak musically, if I'm being very honest. It is not something I feel like I know anything about; I would not consider myself a writer. I just want to sing, I just want to sing a melody, I just want to feel a melody, and be part of the song, and everything else is not so important.
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Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.
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Nothing good happens without a penalty.
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When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
