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 come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
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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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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
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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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Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else present in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your bones but haven't yet been able to accept.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
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'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
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The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
