John Cage Quotes
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
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The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.
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You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
