Patrick Ness Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.
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The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.
