Anne Hebert Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
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I think 4chan is going to stay the same.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
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Family is the most important thing: you can't buy them with money.
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.
