Bryce Dessner Quotes
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
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Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine - A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
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Small things make base men proud.
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Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill.
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Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.
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The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
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As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
