Rick Tumlinson Quotes
Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
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It's like a pylon.
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Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
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One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place.
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
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My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.
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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
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I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
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It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.
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Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.
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Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.
