Andy Couturier Quotes
I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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They are women who are standing on their feet in spite of their circumstances, not because of it. Think of how the world can be a much better place if, for a change, we have a better equality, we have equality, we have a representation and we understand war, both from the front-line and the back-line discussion.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'
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Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.
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I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
