Walter Tevis Quotes
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
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Love is based on imagination.
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Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.
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I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.
