Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Quotes
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I don't like possessions.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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When I was young, Tchaikovsky was ruined for me by conductors who made it slick and treacly. Hearing Valery Gergiev conduct Tchaikovsky has been a revelation - he brings out all its raw passion. And Gergiev with the super-virtuoso LSO - well, it's just the perfect combination.
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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
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I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.
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There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.
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States Rights died at Appomattox.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I've lived in Shepherd's Bush for five years with my friend Georgia in a cosy, cluttered flat.
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Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.
