Derrick Bostrom Quotes
There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.
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I've been racketeered on.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it's work for me. It's not that it scares me, but it's work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say 'Okay, today I'm Italian!'
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I'm a late-night guy.
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Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
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This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.
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One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.
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When a man is ill it is not
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I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.
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Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or underground/illicit interests, Brian saw an opportunity to change the world for the better and build a big business out of it.
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I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.
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The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our head says, 'I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew.' Meaning: I may be me - but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.
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There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.
