e. e. cummings Quotes
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
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I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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I see a lot of people say you just make the music you wanna make and just love what you do, and that is what we do, but I wanna write the best songs we can.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
