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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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
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It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself.
