Astra Taylor Quotes
What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
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Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.
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Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
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What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
