Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.
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First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought. The other kids picked that up right away. They said, 'Oh, he's not going to try to do anything.' They'd push me, shove me, hit me. I'd just stand there and take it.
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I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
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I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.
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I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
