John Millington Synge Quotes
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
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Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
