Lajos Kassak Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.
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If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.
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Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
