John Muir Quotes
This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I started out doing musicals.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses - and just as in states like Texas that have 'tough on crime' reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.
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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
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I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
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This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
