Franz Grillparzer Quotes
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental-far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.
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When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
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When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.
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It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.
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No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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Once you're dead, your worries are over.
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When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental-far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
