Things Quotes
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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A friend of yours has, I think, a huge collection of sock monkeys. I'd love to show those. When I go to people's homes and I see the little things they're obsessed with, I wonder why no one has ever exhibited them.
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Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
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I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.
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It's fun doing new things.
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I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.
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[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.
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Some people more than others, they take things very seriously.
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Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I am one of the people who love the why of things.
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How many things I can do without!
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Sometimes things aren't logical. Sometimes things don't follow timetables.
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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
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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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If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
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Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such a long time that it's not dark to me anymore. It's just something that you work through and in the end, it's a lot of happiness.
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To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
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You forget that you do choose your life, and there are so many things to be grateful for. I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better, and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.
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Don’t be against things so much as for things.
