Deb Olin Unferth Quotes
Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
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No other player on this club with the possible exception of Bruce Walker has done more to put the Dodgers up in the race than Robinson has. He is everything Branch Rickey said he was when he came up from Montreal.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
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'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.
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Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.
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I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.
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I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
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Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.
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I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.
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The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
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Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
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Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
