John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing."
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Rocks
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment."
David Carson
Graphic Designer
"Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
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"Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!"
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"If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game. Because the streets is a short stop: Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot."
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"The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world."
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"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
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"We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now"
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"Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are."
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"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
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"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."
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"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."
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"The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock."
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"If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!"
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"I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."
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"I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts."
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"It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths."
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"Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets."
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"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
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"Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record."
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"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
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"Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy."
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"You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex."
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