Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.
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Practice non-action. Work without doing.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.
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Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
