Stuff Quotes - Page 12

• To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Winning, Simple

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Ideas, World

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• ...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

  Garrison Keillor

  Smart, Keys, Opening Up

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• I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Years, Ideas, Google

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• The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

  Amy Poehler

  Divorce, Land, Worry

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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• We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

  Tim Minchin

  Passion, Love Is, Giving

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

  Cedric the Entertainer

  Thinking, Grounded, Has Beens

  "Cedric The Entertainer Talks 'The Soul Man'". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me of James Purdy's notorious eccentricity. There's plenty of middlebrow stuff if you want it. Self-Murder isn't that.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Queens, Book, Heart

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• There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe.
  
  A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
  
  Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Thinking, Space

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.217, Penguin

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• I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Audience, Ifs

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• 'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6

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• History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

  Henry Bromell

  Change, Powerful, Next Day

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Body in Question", 1991), 1990-1995.

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• So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.

  Allison Mackie

  Art, Jobs, Expression

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• Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

  Noel Redding

  Crazy, Glasses, Hair

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  Sally Schneider

  Thinking, Fundraising, People

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• I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

  Jon Crosby

  Rap, Thinking, Radio

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• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

  John Gunther

  Cities, Forever, Chicago

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• The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.

  Sarah Silverman

  Country, Israel, Shining

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• But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

  Charlie Hunter

  Player, Guitar, Needs

  "Charlie Hunter: Living The Music". Interview with Paul Olson, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 26, 2005.

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• I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Lasts

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• I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

  Louis Prima

  Hair, Long, Violin

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• Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

  Mickey Rourke

  Mistake, Hands, Years

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• I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technique, Lines, Bass

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• To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

  Rider Strong

  Fall, Character, Opportunity

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