Raymond Queneau Quotes
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
Kaki King
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
Buddy Holly
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
Stevie Wonder
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
Walker Percy
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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Zadie Smith
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
John Calvin
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What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.
Erica Jong
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There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.
Bob Goff
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I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
Molly Parker
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
Barbra Streisand
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Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.
William Wrigley, Jr.