Andrew W.K. Quotes
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
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We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.
