Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
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I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about that.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
