A Quotes
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“As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.”
“As I've grown as a person and gotten to know myself more - the question of how someone becomes who they become has gotten really interesting to me.”
“As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my music. I want them to say, "This is somebody who's recognizing his true feelings, his true emotions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, and views on the world, all on one record." I want people to recognize that and to take it and apply it to their own lives. You know what I'm saying? The more and more I get out and talk to different people, I realize they appreciate that - me being unapologetic in whatever views and approach I have.”
“As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.”
“As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.”
“As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.”
“As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends.”
Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
“As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.”
“As I've matured, I've developed more confidence in pattern mixing and in having a slimmer fit and in taking some risks, and I enjoy it!”
“As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.”
“As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.”
“As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.”
“As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.”
“As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.”
“As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes writing more difficult. That may not be the case for everyone - I know plenty of writers and artists who seem to have energy in abundance for all the facets of life; but are they producing anything worthwhile?”
“As I've said before and I've said it in the past.”
“As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.”
“As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.”
“As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.”
“As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.”
“As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues.”
“As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.”
“As I've said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn't just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You've got to keep working at that over time.”
“As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.”
“As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.”
Source: Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)
“As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.”
“As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.”
“As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.”
“As I've submerged myself in news of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, I wanted desperately to feel part of what was going on. And then it hit me: This is what white people were doing to me after Obama was elected!”
“As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.”
“As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.”
“As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.”
“As I've watched the Berlin Wall come down, the cry for freedom in China, and the eastern bloc nations, I rejoice, because I see the bankruptcy of Marxist-Leninism, socialism in this world.”
“As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.”
“As iAm cracked the door to his brother’s room, the poor bastard’s suffering stained the very air, making it hard to breathe—and even see properly.
Then again, everything was dark by design.
“Trez?”
The moaned answer was nothing good, a combination of wounded animal and sore throat from throwing up.
iAm lifted his wrist into the light streaming in from behind and cursed at his Piaget.
By this time, the SOB should have been solidly in recovery, his body digging itself out of the headache hole that had swallowed him. Not the case.
“You want something for your stomach?”
Mumble, mumble, groan, mumble?
“Okay, I’m sure they’ve got some.”
Mumble, moan, moan. Mutter, mutter.
“Yeah, that, too. You want some Milanos?”
Mmmmmmmmmoan.
“Roger that.”
Source: The King
“As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.”
“As ideais, todos sabemos, não nascem na cabeça das pessoas. Começam num qualquer lado, são fumos soltos, tresvairados, rodando à procura de uma devida mente”
Source: Terra Sonâmbula
“As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.”
Source: Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr
“As ideias, as tuas memórias cobertas por madeiras e verniz e um crucifixo.”
Source: Morreste-me
“As ideologias nascem e realizam-se para dominar o ser humano. O objetivo é controlar uma sociedade homologada por um único pensamento, determinado pelos meios de comunicação e imposta através das leis até ao ponto de sujeitar a multidão à vontade de uma minoria.”
Source: Governados pela Mentira - O Suicídio do Cristianismo e do Ocidente
“As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.”
“As idéias tumultuam minha mente me impedindo de pensar.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.”
“As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.”
“As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.”
“As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.”
Source: Four comedies
“As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o’clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by.”
Source: The Leftovers
“As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.”
Source: The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability