Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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I want to be a major force.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
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I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
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The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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Nana (to Mariam): When I'm gone, you'll have nothing in this world. You are nothing!
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
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I was never interested in golf until someone brought up the Get Golf Ready program to me.
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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
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The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
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The future of architecture is culture.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
