e. e. cummings Quotes
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.
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Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
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Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
