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- If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
- The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03
- Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Midnight Sun, 1992
- Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
- Jeffrey Vlaming, Northern Exposure, Heroes, 1992
- Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, The Bad Seed, 1992
- Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, The Bad Seed, 1992
- If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
- All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own. - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
- Avril Lavigne
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