Emanuel Geibel Quotes
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
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The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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From high black walls, gleaming vaguely with rain,Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye.They trembled from coign to coign, and tower to tower,Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew.And some of them steadily glowed, and some soon vanished,And some strange shadows threw.
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Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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One thing I always think about is, at the end of the day, nobody really cares about you as much as they do about themselves. It's a very reassuring thing, in a good way. Pay attention to yourself, and use that energy and put it towards yourself.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
