Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes
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Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh -
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson -
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk -
reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
Harper Lee
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
Ze Frank -
Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
Quintilian -
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Bob Dylan -
Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
Wendell Phillips -
We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.
James P. Hoffa -
I always try to travel light.
Claire Tomalin
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Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.
Jenni Rivera -
Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
James Marsden -
Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.
Micheal Ray Stevenson -
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.
Dave Lombardo Amen -
There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.
Mark Billingham -
Grant us more powers, not less; grant us more democracy, not less; grant us the tools to move forward because, I can assure you, Puerto Rico will move forward. We did it in the past; we will do it again.
Anibal Acevedo Vila
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There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
Arthur Ashin -
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
Ang Lee -
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
Albert Camus -
Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.
Bill Oberst Jr.