Elliott Jaques Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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See, you asked the wrong question. What is good or bad is not my issue. If you pick up things from every nook and cranny and demand answers from me, then aise kaam kaise chalega how will we manage. Whatever my party’s official stand is, I reflect only that.
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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I guess the way to keep a grip on reality is just to take breaks in between albums like most normal bands do. Go home and be a person and hang out with your friends. Do separate things and get back to earth and write songs and go out there again.
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That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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No two men living at the same time live in the same time.
