A Quotes
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“As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.”
“As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?”
“As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.”
Source: Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
“As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be.”
“As soon as you stop thinking about it, the deep can so easily vanish out of mind — more so than that other great distant realm, outer space. The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep, quite simply makes this planet habitable.”
Source: The Brilliant Abyss
“As soon as you stop thinking about them, they'll send you a text message or call you. Because they know you stopped thinking about them. It's like a radar.”
“As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.”
“As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.”
“As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.”
“As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.”
“As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.”
“As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.”
Source: Coming Up for Air
“As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.”
“As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.”
“As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.”
“As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.”
“As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.”
“As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.”
“As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.”
“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
“As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.”
“As soon as you try to put a thought into words it ceases to be true”
“As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.”
“As soon as you were born with a womb, you were fucked.”
Source: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.”
“As soon as you wink, you close your eyes to reality.”
Source: The New Land
“As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.”
“As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.”
“As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.”
“As soon as your dream becomes stronger than your doubts & fears, your dream begins to manifest.”
“As soon as your inside starts to Heal,
Your magnificent wings will appear.”
Source: Lost & Found
“As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.”
“As soon as your object of concern changes from yourself to someone else, your heart is released from the bondage of the self-cherishing thought. As soon as you change the object of your cherishing, there is peace in your heart.”
Source: The Door to Satisfaction: The Heart Advice of a Tibetan Buddhist Master
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
“As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“As Sophia held her gaze, it was clear that the magnetism of the Sydney family was not limited to the males. She radiated a mixture of warmth and self-confidence that was impossible to resist.”
Source: Worth Any Price
“As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.”
“As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven”
“As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.”
“As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.”
“As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
“As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.”
“As speaker [Paul] Ryan suggested, I think they`re trying to go back to the Republican dodge and saying we`re going to focus on border security first, focus on criminals in this country first, and try to punt down the road issues like the 12 million people who are here illegally.”
“As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I'm starting to get the urge to go back to class.”
Source: Girl of Nightmares
“As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.”
Source: Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents
“As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.”
“As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.”