A Quote by Desson Thomson
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
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Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in San Francisco, and also supplied motion picture projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always around theater people.
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You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.
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If you shut down 4chan, shut down 8chan, you're just pushing it under the rug. Underground, it's just gonna get worse.
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