Andrew Vachss Quotes
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
