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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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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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 went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
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Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
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Small towns are so rich.
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The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
