Paul Hindemith Quotes
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.
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I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
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You've got 3 minutes to tell the world something. Are you going to talk to them about being wasted in your front yard because you couldn't park your car, or are you going to talk to someone about something that could actually help them?
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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
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I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.
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Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.
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There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
