Bion of Smyrna Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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The threats to privacy in America – from our own government – seem to never end. Does Congress really think they can just stick an ‘oh-by-the-way’ provision in an obscure piece of legislation directing the FAA to clear the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our neighborhoods, and have no one notice?
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Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.
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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die.
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I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.
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Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
