Sam Shepard Quotes
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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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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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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Experience by itself is not science.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
