Sam Sheppard Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
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After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
