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• When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I always say that it's very important not to blame one person. You have to own whatever part of it you're responsible for. It takes a lot of soul-searching. It's important to go through that, because hopefully you won't repeat yourself.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Soul, Important, Blame

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, Moving, Culture

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Errors, People

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts”, p.73, Liturgical Press

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• I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

  Christoph Waltz

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: collider.com

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• Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.

  Annie Besant

  Suicide, Struggle, Taken

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• I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

  Paul Auster

  Thinking, Remember, Conversation

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

  Richard Powers

  Principles, Composition

  Richard Powers (2014). “Orfeo”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

  John W. Campbell

  Doe, Clubs, Remember

  Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, 1965.

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• You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

  Dean Young

  Song, Lying, Coats

  Dean Young (2012). “Fall Higher”, p.33, Copper Canyon Press

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• The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Mistake, Past

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• It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Blood, Knowing

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• In
  the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the
  highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat the
  proof of their sovereignty, by its annihilation. But the union possesses
  no innate sovereignty, like the states; it was not self-constitute d; it
  is conventional, and of course subordinate to the sovereignties by
  which it was formed.

  John Taylor

  Government, Self, Unions

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• Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

  Colin Wilson

  Two, Trying, Typical

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• Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.

  Kenneth Clark

  Order, Perfection, Dancer

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• If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.98

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• I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

  Takashi Miike

  Character, Goal, Important

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• To work effectively in a film, you have to repeat and work consistently. Basically, you shoot a big master then you do close-ups. You're supposed to be in the same moment, the same 30-second moment, for a day.

  Colin Firth

  Film, Moments, Bigs

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Guitar, Solo, Bits

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• You don't want to repeat yourself for one. You don't want to fall into the clichés for another. And you don't want to be licentious really. You want to be descriptive, if you can be. And you're not setting out to arouse anybody.

  Philip Roth

  Fall, Want, Settings

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

  Azazel Jacobs

  Different, Care, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Giving, Childhood

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Mean, Temptation

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• Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.

  Mark Hart

  Laughing, Today, Praying

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.24, Franciscan Media

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