Andrew W.K. Quotes
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Music is my release.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.
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I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.
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Part-time information and full-time opinions can be very dangerous.
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Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.
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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself.