Different Quotes
14221 Different quotes by 7896 unique authors
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I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what…
— Paul Simon
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a…
— Paul Simon
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For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song…
— Unknown Author
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have…
— Jimmy Webb
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Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning…
— Ani DiFranco
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There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb,…
— Fred Eaglesmith
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I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It…
— Fred Eaglesmith
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Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just…
— Etgar Keret
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Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where…
— Wilhelm II
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We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across…
— Jimmy Webb
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You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into…
— David Bowie
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That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
— Carl Rogers
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If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
— Angelina Jolie
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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and…
— Michael Koryta
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Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine,…
— Hilary Rosen
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I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in…
— Gordon Cooper
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I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and…
— J. Allen Hynek
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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,…
— Florence Nightingale
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Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious…
— Richard Dawkins
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I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which…
— Bobby Fischer
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