Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.
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That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
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I think God gives you all good things at the same time.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
