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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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Around 2008 when the writers' strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, and I thought, 'I'm going to try my hand at horror because I always loved it as a kid.'
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were synonyms for something that had no name.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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Sure, call me any ugly name you choose - The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
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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.
