John Cage Quotes
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
Quotes to Explore
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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All of us grow.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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My songs are about who I am.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
