Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg) Quotes
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.
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Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.
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I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
