C. S. Forester Quotes
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.
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One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
