Ingmar Bergman Quotes
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
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I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.
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Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
