John Cage Quotes
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
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To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
