Adam Fuss Quotes
What strikes the inside of our eyes is completely open to interpretation. We don’t know what strikes the inside of our eyes because our brain gets in the way. What strikes the inside of the eyes is upside down for start. So if the brain can do that, it can do anything. We learn a lot of things about seeing. We learn how to see.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I'm just a worker.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
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Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
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In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
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I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
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I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.
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What strikes the inside of our eyes is completely open to interpretation. We don’t know what strikes the inside of our eyes because our brain gets in the way. What strikes the inside of the eyes is upside down for start. So if the brain can do that, it can do anything. We learn a lot of things about seeing. We learn how to see.
