Things Quotes
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.
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As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.
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I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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You’re supposed to get more conservative in your tastes as you get older, but I tend to go the other way. I listen to stuff that’s two steps away from white noise. But I must admit that I’ve been so busy with Napalm and personal things in recent years that I’ve not dug down into what’s going on. I’m a little disconnected at the minute but it’s not through choice, it’s through circumstance. Generally speaking, anything that’s nasty, horrible and confrontational is my bag.
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
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I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!
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I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
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I just wondered how things were put together.
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I know how to find things.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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But voice is a certain sound of that which is animated; for nothing inanimate emits a voice; but they are said to emit a voice from similitude, as a pipe, and a lyre, and such other inanimate things, have extension, modulation, and dialect; for thus it appears, because voice, also, has these.
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We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.
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Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
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Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart.
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You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings -- there are no such things. There are only middles.
