Paul Banks Quotes
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
Quotes to Explore
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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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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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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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'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
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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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Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.
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I've never backed out of a fight in my life. That's not what I do.
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As soon as 'Hide Away' came out, it was like everyone knew who I was, and I started getting all this attention. It was hard to get used to at first. I just remember that I suddenly couldn't walk down the hallways without hearing a classmate or teacher playing it - it was unreal!
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I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.
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Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
