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The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
β€” James Van Der Beek
Tags: artist, chance, ego, you
The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
β€” P. J. O'Rourke
Tags: government, goals, people, good
In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.
β€” Matisyahu
Tags: sleep, people, you, morning
I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
β€” Andrew Taylor Still
Tags: cat, which, desire, never
'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
β€” Frank Deford
Tags: television, america, morning, good
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
β€” Gro Harlem Brundtland
Tags: years, development, sustainable-development, who, health
Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.
β€” Greta Gerwig
Tags: all-time, leigh, mike, favourite
I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
β€” Dean Smith
Tags: person, free, think, society
Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
β€” St. Vincent
Tags: better, you, music, myself
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
β€” Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: jokes, humour, humor, humour-and-humorists
The thing that had been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done is that which shall be done.
β€” Compton Gage
Tags: writing, wisdom, truth, success, spirituality, science, romance, religion, relationships, poetry, philosophy, motivational, love, life-lessons, life, knowledge, inspirational-quotes, inspirational, inspiration, humor, hope, happiness, god, funny, fear, faith, education, death, books
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.
β€” Rivers Cuomo
Tags: big, fake, imagination, my-life, life
Jen's Mum Will Write Jen's mum writes advertising copy. She specializes in white goods: washing machines, dryers, fridges, freezers, dishwashers. She hates these appliances hulking in corners, power-hungry and fractious. One day, she will have a wood stove, and she'll write about things that matter- she will write about birth and death, about love and the absence of love, about fathers and children, about mothers and daughters, about lovers and friends. She'll write about the whole goddamn wonderful, awful business of loving and being loved
β€” Margaret Wild Jinx
Tags: poetry, margaret-wild, love, jinx
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
β€” Robert South
Tags: appearance, spirit, world, art
Take an inventory of the people to whom you are indebted for the good life you have. Honor them with a good thought, a thank you note, or an act of service. There’s nothing more empowering than the human connection.
β€” Toni Sorenson
Tags: success, people, motivation, love, life, inspiration, honor, health
I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'
β€” Jimmy Smits
Tags: know, law, parents, me
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
β€” Robert Grosseteste
Tags: how, seed, know, you
I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
β€” Karl Lagerfeld
Tags: always, go, mother, you
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
β€” Paulo Coelho The alchemist
Trump knows he's facing some pretty strong criminal liability when he leaves office, one way or another. Even if a sitting president can't be indicted, he's got to know his future looks like it's behind bars unless he cuts some sort of deal with the prosecutors.
β€” Neal Katyal
Tags: strong, know, way, future
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