Basil W. Maturin Quotes
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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Our choices determine our destiny
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I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.
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Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
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Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
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Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are.
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Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.
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Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.
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No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
