Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I love singing. I love singing at home.
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My mother, actually, is a therapist.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.
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When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.
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We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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Women have no government.
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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
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The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.
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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
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Children are happy because they don't have all the "facts" yet.
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I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.
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If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.
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Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.
