Conrad Hall Quotes
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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My grandson, Max, who is an all state lacrosse player, once gave me some lacrosse advice: A limp pass is like a limp dick; it doesn't get the job done. I think the same can be said about limp writing.
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I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.
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I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
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During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
