Nic Sheff Quotes
It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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Book-learning scarcely tells me Of severe afflictions after death-bed; And such as have heard my bardic books They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
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Selling music doesn't make that much money.
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If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
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Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.
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I definitely believe that there are songs that, as artists, we don't know the full potential.
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Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.
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It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.
