Val Kilmer Quotes
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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I'm not graceful.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
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We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.
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Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
