Nisi Shawl Quotes
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
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I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
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Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
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In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.
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Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.
