Things Quotes
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There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.
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The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
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I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
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A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.
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You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
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The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
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I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.
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I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.
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We like to have things like organic beer, rather than the usual chemical filled crap. But you can’t always get that. We’re pretty normal. It goes back to what I was saying earlier about keeping your feet on the ground – as soon as you start demanding things like M&Ms with the blue ones taken out then you’ve probably entered a mad fairy world and you need a slap in the face!
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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?
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The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.
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You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions.
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A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
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I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live From Daryl's House, we really get inside their music which gives me an even broader idea of the writing process. I think I'm always learning from everything in life. There are really songs everywhere.
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
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Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!
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A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
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When things are going good they are going good, but right now they are not going good for us in any phase.
