Antonin Artaud Quotes
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.
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I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts.
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A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observation: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.
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I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
