John Cage Quotes
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
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And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
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History will treat me right.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
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The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Insurance companies don't make anything.
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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
