Ben Katchor Quotes
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.Ben Katchor
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Everything is real on me.
Tamar Braxton -
The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
Victor Mitchell -
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
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.
Rafe Spall -
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
A. J. Cook -
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.
Damon Albarn Blur -
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Imelda Marcos -
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.
Dan Quayle -
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.
Ornette Coleman
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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.
Malcolm X -
NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
Samuel Johnson -
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
John Burroughs -
His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.
Al Alvarez -
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.
Alan Keyes -
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.'
Leon Trotsky
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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
Cynthia Weil -
I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.
Nicholas Gonzalez -
Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
Sam Hunt -
Many people could benefit from meditation.
Jim Yong Kim -
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
Ben Katchor