Anton Bruckner Quotes
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
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The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.
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It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.
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Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
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Half simpleton, half God.
