I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person. ~Alana Stewart
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well; and just have fun on stage. ~Joan Armatrading
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world. ~Christopher Eccleston
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction. ~Lily Dougall
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
#quotes #william-cowper #liberty

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Experience this moment to its fullest. ~Zen Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down. ~Young Buck
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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