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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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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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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I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a writer. Who could I look to? My favorite authors were Ann M. Martin and E.L. Konigsburg and Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Lois Lowry and Norma Klein. They were all white women, and they seemed so stately to me, so elegant. A whole world away.
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I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
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Around us fear, descendingDarkness of fear above
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Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.
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High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.
