General quotes
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I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Understanding is a two-way street.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Let's have some new cliches.
