Astra Taylor Quotes
I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I find the business world hard.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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Collecting is my passion.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
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I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).
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I never remember my parents having an argument.
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We have a dysfunctional immigration system, which does not permit us to know who we let into our country, and it does not permit us to protect our citizens properly. We have an incompetent administration.
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.
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Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
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I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).
