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 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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When I go out shopping and pass a bookstore, I always grab a couple of cookbooks, so I have a library of them. I end up keeping many that I got years and years ago because they work so well.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.
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The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
