"But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?"
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"I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny."
"I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future."
"I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all."
"[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns."
"I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?"
"I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it."
"You’ll never get rid of me, either… No matter which side of the grave we’re on. I’ll haunt you, chase you all around eternity, whatever it takes, but it’s you and me until the stars burn out."
"Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries."
"Good and evil lay side by side."
"Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you."
"I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one."
"Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons."
"Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."
"Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really)."
"Worry is yet another side effect of dying."
"I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together."
"She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day."
"I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic, it's always kind and compassionate. It can be difficult to hold onto artistic principles when the business is so glaringly about the product. It's sad."