Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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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?
Fran Tarkenton -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
R. J. Cutler -
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.
Brown Campbell -
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
Eddi Reader -
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
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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!
Laura Linney -
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall -
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.
Nathan Fillion -
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.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
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.
Walter Kirn -
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke -
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
Ian Axel -
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison -
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
Fatty Arbuckle -
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
Padma Lakshmi -
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
Gabriele Nanni
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.
Yvon Chouinard -
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
Aristotle -
Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. -
It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
Brandi Carlile -
The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke