Neal Shusterman Quotes
I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
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Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
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Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
