Archilochus Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
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Politics is not really my thing.
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
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No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.
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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
