Annie Dillard Quotes
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
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I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.
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What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
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I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.
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I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes and thoughts of some of the people who see it... I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior's statement that 'because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold'.
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I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
