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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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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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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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself.
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Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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I really do not like more than a week or two of down time.
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Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
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There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.
