Michael O'Brien Quotes

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

Michael O'Brien

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Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Jill Lepore

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I'm a job creator.

Steve Wynn

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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

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When I was a kid, I lived in a poor part of Chicago, and I remember my brother and me using towels as capes. My son does it, too.

Michael Pena

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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Josh Tillman

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I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

Clint Howard

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Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.

Claire Danes

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

Prince Andrew

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I have a strange, not very traditional voice - I'm not Adele.

Perfume Genius

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