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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Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.
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The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.
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If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
