Rene Ricard Quotes
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.
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I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.
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Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. - 1940-1943
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
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Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.
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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
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I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.
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I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.
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I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
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It's almost kind of satisfying when you get direct proof that someone stole your bit. It makes the times you had the paranoid suspicion feel less crazy.
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A metafísica é uma consequência de estar mal disposto.
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Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
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I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
