Philip Glass Quotes
The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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I was afraid to express myself for a while.
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There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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Instead of putting cheese with ranchero sauce, chile is really very good for you. If you put that in, you get flavoring, so you're not eating bland food, especially if you're used to spicy food.
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The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you can choose between eating and sleeping, but you can't do both.
