Pat Nixon Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I don't do negative things.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.
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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
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I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument. I learned what relatives and substitutes could be played against a root of a chord, like E minor related to G, and so forth. I've also gathered all this knowledge because for ten years all I've done is play jazz, every day.
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The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
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I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
