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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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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To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
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My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often.
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Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
