T. C. Boyle Quotes
When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!
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All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.
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When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
