Sam Shepard Quotes
People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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My dream was to have a slide bannister so I could slide down and go out the door to work.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
