Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
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As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.
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I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.
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Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.