Alex Ebert Quotes
At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
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I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.
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For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
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At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
