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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
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Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.
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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
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I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.
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If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
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Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
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You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.
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The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.
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The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
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I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
