Edward Hallowell Quotes
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
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I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance EMA, trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.
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There are those fallen who don’t get up so as not to fall again.
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The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.
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It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
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My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.
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One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.
