Bill Konigsberg Quotes
That was a level of commitment I’d never be able to understand, and I wished there was something out there I felt so strongly about I’d willingly die for it.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
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AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,Ay, screen it if you may,-Yet I misdoubt thy trembling handWill scare the hawk away.
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.
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I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.
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Riding through the city on my bike all day Cause the filth took away my license It doesn't get me down and I feel OK Cause the sights that I'm seeing are pricelessEverything seems to look as it shouldBut I wonder what goes on behind doorsA fella looking dapper, but he's sitting with a slapperThen I see it's a pimp and his crack whore.
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I have long thought that our vacant territory was the resource which, in some mode or other, was most applicable and adequate as a gradual cure for the portentous evil; without, however, being unaware that even that would encourage serious difficulties of different sorts.
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We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
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Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.
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You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.
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The truth doesn't die. The desire for liberty cannot be fully suppressed.
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The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.
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Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?
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That was a level of commitment I’d never be able to understand, and I wished there was something out there I felt so strongly about I’d willingly die for it.
