Things Quotes
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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 remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.
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We are not here to fix things, we are here to witness how they work.
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The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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If thou canst believe, all things are possible.
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I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.
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One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
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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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We did some better things offensively. Obviously in the last eight minutes, we reverted back a little bit.
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Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be
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I think that we're gonna start seeing more and more people who started as a YouTube personality and now have their own studio, and they're gonna start creating things: story-driven stuff, longer-form stuff that people have an opportunity to enjoy.
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There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
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When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.
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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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You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.
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People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
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They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.
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I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
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When things come easy you don’t fight for yourself as much and you skip a lot of steps.
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You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.
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Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.
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There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.
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Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
