Things Quotes
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
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I just like doing a lot of different things. People need a reason to get their butts out of bed and do something.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
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It's funny how we imagine that lifelong relationships have to be build on a mountain top of moments, so huge they're written across the sky in letters a mile wide. But I knew a skywriter once and he told me the letters are just strategically placed puffs of smoke that are easily blown away. In reality, a life together is made of the simplest, smallest things.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.
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I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.
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I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
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I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained myself to do the opposite of what's human nature, and that is to recoil from things I don't like.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!
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There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.
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What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
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Most things get steadily worse.
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Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
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I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.
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I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
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I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler to be jaded than to be careful with other people.
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Some things in life, you don't get. You gotta go take it... Or you'll never have'em.
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To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is nothing radical, this notion of things constantly changing, and that the change is not inherently destructive.
