Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.
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And everybody got they opinionsBut they ain't got no money
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The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim 'de minimis lex non curat,' does not apply to science.
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The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
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I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.
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I've always been afraid to do a solo show. When I go to see the great solo shows of Liz Callaway or Christine Ebersole, they have so many incredible stories to talk about, and their material and lives are so rich. I've always worried that my life was not rich enough.
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If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.
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Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life - why spend most of it pretending to be cool?
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The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.
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Simplify, simplify.
