Claude Steiner Quotes
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I'm easily entertained.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.
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The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.
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To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.
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A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
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Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
