Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
But what you realise after you’ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don’t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can’t even get my head above water!
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, ’41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
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