Anohni Quotes
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.
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I try personally not to be nostalgic.
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You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
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I enjoy having my privacy and not seeing my face on the cover of everything, y'know?
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Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
