Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes
Und soll wie aller Musik also auch des Generalbasses Finis und Endursache anders nicht als nur zu Gottes Ehre und Recreation des Gemütes sein. Wo dieses nicht in acht genommen wird, ists keine eigentliche Musik, sondern ein Teuflisches Geplerr und Geleier.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
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Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder.
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I wrote a paper in school on William Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.
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Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.
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If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic - to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.
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Und soll wie aller Musik also auch des Generalbasses Finis und Endursache anders nicht als nur zu Gottes Ehre und Recreation des Gemütes sein. Wo dieses nicht in acht genommen wird, ists keine eigentliche Musik, sondern ein Teuflisches Geplerr und Geleier.
