"A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out."
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"How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead."
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"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them."
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"What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips."
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"There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one."
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"Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?"
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"Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master."
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"The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion."
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"Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces."
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"The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect."
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"Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about."
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"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."
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"Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied."
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"Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience."
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"Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath."
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"The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air."
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"I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward."
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"If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone."
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"The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity."
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"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
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