Rick Bass Quotes
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
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There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding.
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I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.
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The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.
