Barbara (Monique Andrée Serf) Quotes
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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'Why do they believe that?''Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.'
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.
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Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
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Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
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I don't invest in rich kids' businesses.
