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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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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Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.
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I believe that God has blessed me in immeasurable ways so that I can, in return, bless and help others.
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I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.
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I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.
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I'm not a Blockbuster boy, I never wanted to be. I just don't want to look back in 30 or 40 or 50 years and have my grandkids say, 'You did a lot of stupid shit, Granddad. What an idiot you were, smiling for the cameras and playing the game.'
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When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
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I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
