Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
esse est percipi, and he recognizes himself as being only insofar as he is perceived.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.
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Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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You have to believe in your bosses, especially in this day and age where there is so much out there that can be posted without checks and balances.
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So those of us who believe in democracy, we need to speak out forcefully, because both the facts and history, I believe, are on our side. That doesn’t mean democracies are without flaws. It does mean that the cure for what ails our democracies is greater engagement by our citizens - not less.
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Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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esse est percipi, and he recognizes himself as being only insofar as he is perceived.
