Adrian Younge Quotes
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
Adrian Younge
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
Rachel Sklar
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
Rachel Platten
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
Malcolm Gladwell
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
Dakota Johnson
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
Harland Williams
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
Natalie Zea
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild
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I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
Connie Stevens
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
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There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
Bob Beckel
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Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'
Jean Craighead George
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I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
Adrian Younge
