Dave Liebman Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
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Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.
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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
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At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.
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There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.
