John Burroughs Quotes
Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I find the business world hard.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.
