Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
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True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.
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I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
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When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
