Adolf von Harnack Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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Disrespect, the feeling that what one has to offer in life has been rejected, the feeling that one has joined history's losers can make us as human beings more vulnerable to evil.
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Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
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I have hundreds of songs.
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We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
