Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
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You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
