Blixa Bargeld Quotes
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
