Decca Aitkenhead Quotes
Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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I'm a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
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Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.
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Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.
