Johannes Brahms Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
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High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.
