Bob Younger Quotes
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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And entreating his exalted weight, Under the stars, saints he planted.
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In manliness he will greet my trouble, Should I be bled, I should evidently get better; Truly I saw no one before, who saw not in me Every indisposition, he will cultivate his business.
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We have a large public that is very ignorant about world affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
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I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
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A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
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We are rough men and used to rough ways.
