Rene Dubos Quotes
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.
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I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.
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The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
