W. G. Sebald Quotes
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
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When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.
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I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell - urggh!
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I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.
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Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...
