Antiphanes Quotes
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
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If youth only knew, if age only could.
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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
