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  • Beck To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Carmine Coppola To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Agnes Martin To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Anna Lindh To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Edmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Demosthenes To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Cormac McCarthy To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ben Gibbard To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Alexander Smith To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Aaron Copland To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Eric Hoffer To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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