Diogenes Quotes
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a string of stories. And if it's told well enough and in a way that's charming and warm and with wit and humor, then it takes a bit of the edge off of it. You can still tell the truth, but if you tell it very sweetly and very warmly, it makes it go down a bit easier.
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Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
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Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.
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If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
