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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Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him - I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
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When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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'Truth' is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
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We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.
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High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.
