Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.
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Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.
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If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
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I didn't really want to be a comedian.
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I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
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When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
