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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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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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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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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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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Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
