Sam Shepard Quotes
People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
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I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.
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It is as difficult for Chinese politicians to get a real smile from the people as it is to keep the sky blue and clouds white.
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The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
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Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.
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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
