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I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My fathe

I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, I know how to hire someone. – Walter Mosley

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When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears. – Randy Bachman

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Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car. – Godfrey Reggio

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The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up. – Alexandra Paul

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So if youre a robot and youre living on this planet, you can do things that you cant do in real life – things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive. – William Joyce

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. – Brian Eno

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