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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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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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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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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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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
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Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
