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As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same… — David Byrne
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;… — Simone Weil
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,… — Thomas Jefferson
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old… — Norman Mailer
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative… — Roland Barthes
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and… — Anna Quindlen
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the… — Otto Hahn
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies"… — William J. Clinton
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. — John F. Kennedy
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities. — Benjamin Graham
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's… — Murasaki Shikibu
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. — Gustave Flaubert
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that… — Alan Garner
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself… — Donald Murray
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. — Malcolm Allison
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world… — Margaret Bourke-White
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of… — Robert Adams
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy
By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep… — Robyn Davidson
The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer — Varg Vikernes

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