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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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 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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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 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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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.
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I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.
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The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.
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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
