Max Frisch Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I've never had the patience of a teacher.
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Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight
