Eric Maisel Quotes
You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.
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It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.
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Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
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Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
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I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.
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One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
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in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.
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The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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I don't want anything given to me.
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I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
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Earth's sweat, the sea.
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When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
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You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.
