Bob Dylan Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
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I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.