Quotes 501 till 520 of 653.
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The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
Source: Engleby (2007) -
The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
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The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118 -
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated - namely, the lavatory.
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
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The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
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The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
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The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
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The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
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There are certain things you don't say that's disrespectful. They detract from the point you're trying to make.
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
― Franklin Pierce Adams
American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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