Originals Quotes - Page 18

• Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Mirrors, Musical

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• But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Self, Sky

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• Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Book, Lakes, Hair

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• Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Successful, Men

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• But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

  Dario Argento

  Film, Knows, Versions

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• A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.

  Owen Hart

  Kids, Guy, Dynamite

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• There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.

  Howie Mandel

  Children, People, Foxes

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• The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  "The Quest of the Historical Jesus". Book by Albert Schweitzer, transl. by W. Montgomery, 1906.

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• Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.

  Gordon Stein

  Confusion, Atheism, Use

  Gordon Stein (1980). “An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism”

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• You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.

  William Monahan

  Lying, Believe, Literature

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• Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Song, Heart, Eye

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• Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Civilization, Tables, Sin

  Journaux Intimes "Mon CoeurMis a Nu" no. 59 (1887)

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• Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.

  Nate Ruess

  Home, Journey, Play

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• Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

  Jean Houston

  Humanity, Pathways, Evolution

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• Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.

  Donna Farhi

  Silence, Mind, Heartbeat

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• The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.

  John Cusack

  Book, Writing, Sugar

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• America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

  Gary Shteyngart

  Voice, America, Treasure

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• Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Powerful, Mean, Rivers

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• We talk to our guys all the time about the difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you do it all the time, even when you lost that feeling that you originally had when you you made the original commitment.

  Shaka Smart

  Commitment, Differences, Guy

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• Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Unique, Fit

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

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• Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

  William Hazlitt

  Business, Self, Owing

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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• A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fashion, Men, Wife

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• The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Passion, Hazards

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• Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Taste, Tongue

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.107

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• The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mind, Firsts, Pessimistic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.85, BookBaby

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