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My younger son is a rock archivist practically; I'm sure things have filtered out of that - it's in the air in this house.


George Crumb

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LOIS LOWRY Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
BON SCOTT I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
WINONA RYDER Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The more the parents let those two things happen, the worse the outcomes are for the younger sibling...
DR. BERT BURRASTON My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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ONE DIRECTION You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN When the sun comes out, you have this feeling that you want things to be fresh and to have some colo...
JANICE HENRY Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
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FRANK LEPORE Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he ...
BIBLE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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CINDY SHEEHAN It's getting pathetic that my 8-year-old son isn't safe in his house.
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DAVID HARRINGTON There is a small hope stuck in the air of my words, fighting to come out of the echoes of my voice a...
ROSA M. BETANCES But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my na...
BIBLE All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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BIBLE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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FRANCINE RIVERS I think you have to send a message out to those outside the state, ... that Louisiana is in fact tak...
ROBERT ADLEY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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DAVID RUSSELL They have a lot of air, they can house 25 people, a full crew, for 36 hours, and they can release ox...
FRITZ CORRIGAN I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
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TIM MCDONOUGH Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
PABLO NERUDA And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst...
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BOB GRAHAM They talked about making sure my son stays where he is, keeping grades up and staying out of trouble...
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RON HOWARD Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of t...
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AUSTEN RANDOLPH Like a rock thrown in the river and over time is smoothed out by the continuous waves that changes i...
VICTOR WERNET The statue is permanently out of place in my house,
STEVEN WRIGHT When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is ou...
LEWIS J. BATES There were a lot of things that were concerning me about this school before this. My son hasn't even...
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
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ALAN LIGHT I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart...
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JANE KRAKOWSKI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
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DAN BRIODY pushed back the boundaries of what was possible in rock...massive, over the top...bigger...this was ...
THE EAGLES Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another d...
KYLE MACLACHLAN Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
MARY SCHMICH They ate at my house frequently and got things out of the cabinet. They helped themselves to the ref...
BONNIE EIDT Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... I'm sure that might intimidate some, but I'm hoping that once we have an array of people blocking th...
JUSTIN DALEY For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum...
ALLEN WEINSTEIN I’m sure all of that’s true. Especially the anal bit--Marshall’s always been an ass--but I don...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to re...
JANDY NELSON It may just be that, in this slow-motion labor market that we have, a lot of younger people have opt...
ED MCKELVEY I don't know. I just don't have the same willingness to, as they say, bend like a willow in the wind...
SCOTT WEILAND Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS The money has only been entering the system in the last few months in most jurisdictions, ... Though...
BRIAN POSTL TREE HOUSE
A tree house, a free house,
A secret you and me house,
A high up in the le...
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DICK HILL Now we're going to find out the resilience of this White House. There's no question this is the sing...
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GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE