Rene Daumal Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
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I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.
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And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
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Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.
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The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.
