Derrick Bostrom Quotes
The Puppets continue to improvise during their shows, but it's a very different sort from back in the old days.
Quotes to Explore
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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All men are born equally free.
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Somebody once said to me 'You're turning into a mini-George with your little pranks'.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Worship is about God relationship. I need to remember to keep it that simple.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
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The Puppets continue to improvise during their shows, but it's a very different sort from back in the old days.
