John Cage Quotes
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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If you keep your armpits open, you won't get depressed.
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I'm not going to disappear.
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All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious.
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
