"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means."
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"The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free."
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"There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove."
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"I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had."
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"When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks."
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"At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes."
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"When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time."
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"The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole."
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"There is a place where the sidewalk ends."
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"Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it."
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"One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight."
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"Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end."
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"It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves."
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"In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can."
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"Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end."
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"Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business."
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"Jazz never ends... it just continues."
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"I don't shop just high-end, honestly. I shop at Zara, I shop at Topshop, I shop at H&M. I shop everywhere."
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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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"I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light."
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