Ben Katchor Quotes
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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I go home, and there's dust on everything because I'm never there.
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Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.
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Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.
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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
