Faris Badwan Quotes
It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn't matter.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
