Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
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Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
