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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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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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It is never literally true that any form is meaningless and 'says nothing.' Every form in the world says something. But its message often fails to reach us, and even if it does, full understanding is often withheld from us. and, properly speaking, FORM IS THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF THIS INNER MEANING.
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British people are surprised that I'm British! It's extraordinary, I get tweets every day from British people saying, 'I had no idea you were British.'
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I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
