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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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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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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I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.
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A great deal of bargaining power with suppliers. We are never locked in to anyone.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
