Martin Luther Quotes
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
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As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.
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People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.
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You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.
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Stand close around, ye Stygian set,with Dirce in the boat conveyed,Lest Charon, seeing her, forget,That he is old and she a shade.
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Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
