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Adventure Quote by Bob Weir

“We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.” quote by Bob Weir — Download Open image

“We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.”

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We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

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Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

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The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

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Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.

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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means…

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The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating.

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I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the…

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

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I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity…

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The…

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“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to…

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“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected…

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“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a…

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