Bryce Dessner Quotes
We've gotten better as a live band. The songs have been allowed to grow with our audience. I don't think I would have done it any other way.
Bryce Dessner
The National
Quotes to Explore
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
Rachael Ray
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I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.
Olly Murs
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
Daniel Berrigan
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
H. R. McMaster
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
Raney Aronson-Rath
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Patrick Lencioni
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
Olivia De Havilland
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Cara Delevingne
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
Haile Gebrselassie
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman