Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
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The human reason discovers new relations between things not by deduction, but by that unpredictable blend of speculation and insight... induction, which-like other forms of imagination-cannot be formalized.
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You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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The word 'carer' makes me think of someone with a nylon overall and a long list of 'clients' to wash before she finishes her shift. A companion was something unique. A kind of live-in friend.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
