Thomas Starr King Quotes
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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To retire is to die.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others.
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He who walks straight rarely falls.
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I've ended up working with Disney a lot, which is kind of peculiar. In theater, I've done a couple of projects with them and written a couple movies and whatnot.
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It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.
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Always ask yourself: Am I living the life the I want?" Constantly evaluate where you are in life to make sure you are heading towards the direction you want.
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If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
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The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
