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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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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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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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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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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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.
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If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
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We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
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That’s the nature of the beast. We are what we are.
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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.
