Daniel Kemmis Quotes
What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
Quotes to Explore
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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We all have insecurities, but some of us are better at covering them up.
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My first artist bus was Jason Aldean's old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the couches. It was such an absolute dude bus.
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It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
