Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.
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What say you to such a supper with such a woman?
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His heart was one of those which most enamour us,Wax to receive, and marble to retain:He was a lover of the good old school,Who still become more constant as they cool.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.
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Fools are without number.
