Ken Hill Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
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I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
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Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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I wanted to represent my country. It's an honor.
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I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.
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The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
