Derrick Bostrom Quotes
Now that everybody shows up these days their own little metal tubes covered with buttons and lights, and filled whatever special blend they’ve cooked up, pot is more like a designer drug than the sacrament it was in my day.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
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Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
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I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
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I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
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I try to be present in the moment and to be authentic, and to listen.
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For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
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You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
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I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
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A lot of times, people have something that they're afraid of. They've got a client that's mad at them. They've got a project that's due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don't let that happen.
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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.
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Now that everybody shows up these days their own little metal tubes covered with buttons and lights, and filled whatever special blend they’ve cooked up, pot is more like a designer drug than the sacrament it was in my day.
