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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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
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All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
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...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.
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There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.
