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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The difference with me is that I did inhale.
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
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Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind .”
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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.
