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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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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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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Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.
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In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action.
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[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.
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I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared. - Lily
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Evolution is the most important battle that Christians have to fight today, a battle we must win by any means, fair or foul!
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I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.
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The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
