Anaxagoras Quotes
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
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I have become quite good at repurposing and reusing much of what comes into the house. The goal is to generate as little waste as possible.
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I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
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Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
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I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.
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Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
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Wrestling is the ultimate martial art.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.
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That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?
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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
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America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
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Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
