Paul Hindemith Quotes
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
