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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The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
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Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.
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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.
