Ben Katchor Quotes
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
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Everything is real on me.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.
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The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
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In a country where the sole employer is the state, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: 'who does not work shall not eat,' has been replaced with a new one: 'who does not obey shall not eat.'
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
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There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and evening Apollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
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The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
