Bill Callahan Quotes

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

Bill Callahan

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I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Robert Silverberg

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First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Michael Chertoff

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I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Tom Robbins

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Actions have consequences.

Tom Cotton

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Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Michelle Obama

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The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

Jose Garces

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Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

Jonathan Krisel

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In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

Jonathan Dee

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I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Douglas Carter Beane

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It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

Chi McBride

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Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Brian Eno

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