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"I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear."
"We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance."
"When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?"
"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."
"We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there."
"I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes."
"sometimes I hate you," she said."
"You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away."
"Sometimes religion gets in the way of God."
"If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy."
"Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste."
"As artists, we like night more than day sometimes."
"I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it."
"An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains."
"Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not."
"Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question."
"Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about.""
"Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high."
"Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling."
"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
