Gan De Quotes
In the year of chan yan..., Jupiter was in [the Zodiacal Division of] Zi, it rose in the morning and went under in the evening together with the Lunar Mansions Xunu, Xu and Wei. It was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish (chi) star appended (fu) to its side. This is called "an alliance" (tong meng).
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?
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Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
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Take my hand, we'll make it i swear.
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In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
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When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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America can't provide health care to people who need it. We can't invest in science and technology, which will determine whether or not we are going to be competitive in the long term. There has never been a country on Earth that saw its economy decline and yet maintained its military superiority.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
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In the year of chan yan..., Jupiter was in [the Zodiacal Division of] Zi, it rose in the morning and went under in the evening together with the Lunar Mansions Xunu, Xu and Wei. It was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish (chi) star appended (fu) to its side. This is called "an alliance" (tong meng).
