Jack Gilbert Quotes
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.
Quotes to Explore
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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Silence is also conversation.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
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With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
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When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.
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While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.
