Derrick Bostrom Quotes
They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.
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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.
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You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
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I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.
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History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
