Labrinth Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
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I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.
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As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.
