- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
- Collapsing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.
- Disapproval
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
- Headlines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
- Central Park
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- Nov 07, 2020
It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020