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Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk ro...

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I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of...

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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you ...

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's alr...

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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and ...

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Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time ...

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It was still twilight when they reached the flat rock. They sat, and the stone still held the warmth...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was ...

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Strange how potent cheap music is.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just musi...

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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought ...

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What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had c...

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One time Marian showed me some sand. When she gave it to me, she said, "These are very interesting s...

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Shunryu SuzukiNot Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't ha...

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with ...

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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is t...

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I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the p...

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She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

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Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few year...

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