Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with. - Don Dokken

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The way up and the way down are one and the same. - Heraclitus

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A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear. ― Don DeLillo

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We can activate tremendous powers within our own lives if we open up to the experience. ― Ari Gunzburg

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Sam Rockwell is an occupational hero for me, the same way that Phil Hoffman or Peter Sarsgaard or Michael Shannon are. - Paul Walter Hauser

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The distribution of cultures in the world reflects the distribution of power. Trade may or may not follow the flag, but culture almost always follows power. ― Samuel P. Huntington

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We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out. - John Lewis

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Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice. ― Reinhold Niebuhr

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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.- Donald Trump

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