Arnold Schoenberg Quotes
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Think and grow rich.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.
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In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
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I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.
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My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
