Paul Kantner Quotes
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.
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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.
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Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
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I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
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Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.
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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
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I'm always flattered when the Leprechauns are listed in these 'Top Tens' of horror characters among Freddy Kruger and Jason, which were the characters I grew up 'admiring,' if that's the right word.
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People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.
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Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
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A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
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The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.
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Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
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I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.
