Caspar David Friedrich Quotes
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
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I am a normal guy.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
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I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.
