Arthur Waley Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
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You don't need most beauty products. They're an emotional purchase. That's why the conversations are really important. What choice do you have but to ask your customer what they want?
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
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I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
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Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
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I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.
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What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
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The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.
