Sam Shepard Quotes
It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
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It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
