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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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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Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
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You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.
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The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
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Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
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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.
