Things Quotes
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In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.
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All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
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There is compensation in all things.
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In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
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The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else, clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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This satire business, that was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. I was certified funny. From then on, I had to be funny - people expected it. Twice the work for the same pay.
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I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.
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Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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Mostly it's just finding things that were distinctively local, which you don't find very much anymore.
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A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
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I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.
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Even when things feel calm, there is still a risk.
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Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.
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You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.
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We've told our guys all along to live in the moment. Worry about the things they can control. It's not even a thought.
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
