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Holly Near

"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."

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Akiroq Brost

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

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"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."

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"I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing."

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"I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version."

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"I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do."

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"I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out."

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Holly Near
"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

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"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."

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"White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people."

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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."

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"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."

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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

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"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."

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"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."

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"When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this."

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"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

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