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Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
Cosmos (1980) -
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
A Distant Mirror -
For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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