A Quotes
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“All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.”
“All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.”
“All motivations are neutral, it is up to the individual or receiver to decode the message.”
“All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.”
Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing
“All moveables of wonder, from all parts,
Are here—Albinos, painted Indians, Dwarfs,
The Horse of knowledge, and the learned Pig,
The Stone-eater, the man that swallows fire,
Giants, Ventriloquists, the Invisible Girl,
The Bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes,
The Wax-work, Clock-work, all the marvellous craft
Of modern Merlins, Wild Beasts, Puppet-shows,
All out-o'-the-way, far-fetched, perverted things,
All freaks of nature, all Promethean thoughts
Of man, his dullness, madness, and their feats
All jumbled up together, to compose
A Parliament of Monsters.”
Source: The Prelude
“All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.”
Source: Notes of Thought
“All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films.”
“All movements go too far.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“All movies are different, all movies have their own life.”
“All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.”
“All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.”
“All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.”
“All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.”
“All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.”
“All muscle cells, including those of the heart and of the smooth muscles lining the blood vessels, contain more magnesium than calcium. If magnesium is deficient, calcium floods into the smooth muscle cells of blood vessels and causes spasms, leading to constricted blood vessels and therefore higher blood pressure, arterial spasm, angina, and heart attack.12 A proper balance of magnesium in relation to calcium can prevent these symptoms.
Dean Md Nd, Carolyn. The Magnesium Miracle”
“All muscle cells, including those of the heart and of the smooth muscles lining the blood vessels, contain more magnesium than calcium. If magnesium is deficient, calcium floods into the smooth muscle cells of blood vessels and causes spasms, leading to constricted blood vessels and therefore higher blood pressure, arterial spasm, angina, and heart attack.12 A proper balance of magnesium in relation to calcium can prevent these symptoms.
Dean Md Nd, Carolyn. The Magnesium Miracle (Second Edition) (p. 55).”
“All music comes from God.”
“All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.”
“All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a band you want your music to sound good in that medium. Sometimes when I'm doing a mix I'll listen to it on my laptop, on the crappy speakers on my laptop. It lets me know what the tracks gonna sound like if someone else listens to it that way.”
“All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.”
“All music has to speak in some form or other.”
“All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.”
“All music is beautiful.”
“All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.”
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“All music is good music, if it touches your soul.”
“All music is important if it comes from the heart.”
“All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.”
Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
“All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.”
“All music is the blues. All of it.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.”
“All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.”
“All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.”
“All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.”
“All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.”
“All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.”
“All musicians are potential band leaders.”
“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”
“All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.”
“All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.”
“All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.”
“All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.”
Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters
“All must respect those who respect themselves.”
Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation
“All must taste death except the creator of death Himself.”
“All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.”
“All my acquaintances are coupled up
like hamsters with advanced degrees.”
Source: Virgin
“All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.”
Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016