Paul Banks Quotes
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.
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I encourage interoffice romance.
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As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.
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Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.
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No one should have to live in fear.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
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To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.
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Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.
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While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by a sense of purpose, by efforts to create innovative products or services, and, above all, by consideration of individuals as employees and members of society.
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Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.
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If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
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The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy put into thinking about social, economic, ethical frameworks for these systems. We think there's a very urgent need for this to happen faster.
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I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.
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We are in the Windows era — we were, we are, and we always will be.
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Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
