Joseph Haydn Quotes
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh my god, if I was a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team.
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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.
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I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.
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If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
