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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
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You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.
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You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
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You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
Source: The Patrick Melrose Novels (2014) 285 -
You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
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You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.
Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
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