Ernest Belfort Bax Quotes
Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
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I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.
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I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
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I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.
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By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
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Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
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Inspiration comes from everywhere: New York City is inspiration, my pedigree, every lesson that I’ve learned along the way from assisting, etc. But I guess the biggest challenge in shooting musicians is to really try to nail what that particular project is going to feel like forever. I always ask for as much information from my subjects as possible.
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They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.
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Women in general are not interested in questions of principle as such, but at most only in so far as they affect particular personalities. They require the dramatic element to evoke their interest. With many men, on the contrary, though this element of course enhances interest, it is not the indispensable condition of interest.
