K. W. Jeter Quotes
Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
Daniel Barenboim
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
Natalie Maines
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Iain Sinclair
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
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The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
John Sununu
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
Walker Percy
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All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.
LL Cool J
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
T Bone Burnett
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
R. A. Torrey
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
L. Frank Baum
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Umberto Eco
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
Arthur Ashe
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
Ursula Hegi
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates
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When you win one on this day, they become special ones and they get a special place in the barn. We've been blessed with some good ones.
D. Wayne Lukas
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
William Cowper
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What unites them is an almost reckless desire to test themselves in the most extreme circumstances. In many respects the life they have chosen is a complete rejection of the hyped, consumerist American dream as it is dished out in reality TV shows and pop-song lyrics. They've chosen asceticism over consumption. Instead of celebrating their individualism, theyĆve subjugated theirs to the collective will of an institution. Their highest aspiration is self-sacrifice over self-preservation.
Evan Wright
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Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
K. W. Jeter