Artie Shaw Quotes
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I don't want to get fat.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.
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'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
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I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.
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If I could have done anything more, it would have been less.
