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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I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.
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The true minister is in his pulpit not because he has chosen that profession as an easy means of livelihood, but because he could not help it, because he has obeyed an imperious summons that will not be denied.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
