Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.
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Let's stop acting like a man who is clear about his intentions, is open to love, and has a good head on his shoulders is 'boring,' 'lame,' and 'not passionate like the edgy guy.'
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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
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It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
