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• I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Thinking, Quality

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• Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important people/musicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o.k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Men, Errors, People

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• A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

  Al Di Meola

  Running, Player, Hands

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• Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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• There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Love, Heart, Knowing

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• Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Law, Parent

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• I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Break Up, Thinking, Would Be

  "DOJ Case: Your Voice Counts!". Freedom to Innovate Network Newsletter, January 17, 2000.

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• I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

  James Laughlin

  Break Up, Block, Writing

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• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Tools

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• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  Zhang Yimou

  Firsts, Considerate, My Own

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• Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Thinking, Air, Blood

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• I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

  Courtney Love

  Growing Up, Father, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

  Daniel Clowes

  Kids, Kissing, Thinking

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• Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

  Gwen Stefani

  Letting Go, Ideas, People

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• Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

  Donald Sutherland

  Fire, Too Much, Bitterness

  "Total recall". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Responsibility

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• Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.

  Henry Rono

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

  Ira Glass

  Inspirational, Graduation, Stress

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• When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Graduation, Art

  "Attitude". Margaret Atwood's commencement address at the University of Toronto, Canada, www.humanity.org. June 14, 1983.

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• Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and a few feral animals will literally try to throw their stiletto heel in in your lane and trip you. Keep your eyes straight ahead and just run your race.

  Sharyn Alfonsi

  Inspirational, Graduation, Running

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• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Father, Hate, Men

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Nice, Ignorance, Being Sad

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• Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

  Joe Lando

  Boys, Talking, Two

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• Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

  Richard Foreman

  Age, Sentimental, Use

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