Sam Graves Quotes
Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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Europe can be saved.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
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The benefits of Umuganda are not merely economic. The day is intended to build community involvement and strengthen cohesion between persons of different background and levels. One such a benefit is that people can access authorities to articulate their needs and voice opinions on various issues.
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Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
