Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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A foolish woman knows a foolish man's faults. ~Irish Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ~Hannes Alfven
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You have got to have a problem that you want to solve, a wrong that you want to right. ~Steve Jobs
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that. ~Paul Weyrich
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Even nectar is poison if taken to excess. ~Hindu Proverb
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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