Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 2111.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
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Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
Which join'd with Time and Industry,
Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
To such a Height, the very Poor
Liv'd better than the Rich before.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11 -
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
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To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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To create something you must be something.
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To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
Source: The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive -
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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