Things Quotes
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That's the thing about me. I prefer things once they're already over and I'm working on understanding them. I wish I were faster at that - like, I could understand things while they're happening - but I always have to read the whole book and write the entire paper before I even know what the hell I'm thinking.
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I was going, but not now. None of us really want to go out. This is what happens when the city doesn't pay any attention to keeping up with things.
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If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
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There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.
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“I’m not really sure how we’ve arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I’d be a great deal happier if we weren’t pointing these things at one another, wouldn’t you?”
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I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
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Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
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As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
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Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
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One of the things we say in this band is if it's not fun, it's not worth doing.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
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The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.
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Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.
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I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
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Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
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You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.
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Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
