Virginia Woolf Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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The soul is the truth of who we are.
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If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.
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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
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When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
