Everett Ruess Quotes
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak.
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
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I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.
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War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.
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Why don't we get drunk and screw?
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Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
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I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.
