Ernst Toller Quotes
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.
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If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.
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It is your job to make the digital revolution happen. It is my job to make sure that it happens in the interest of the consumer.
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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.
