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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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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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 love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
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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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Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.
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With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.
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Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
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Logik und Ethik aber sind im Grunde nur eines und das-selbe. - Pflicht gegen sich selbst. Sie feiern ihre Vereinigung im höchsten Werte der Wahrheit...
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Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
