Maurice Baring Quotes
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Quotes to Explore
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
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But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
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The miracle is thisThe more we share...The moreWe have
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
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I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.
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I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.
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My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
