"I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive."
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"I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3"
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"When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'"
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"I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS."
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"I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special."
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"People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it."
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"I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security."
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"To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?"
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"All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante."
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"And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric."
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"it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one"
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"When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line."
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"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better."
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"There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought."
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"The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do."
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"We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think."
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day."
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"The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty."
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"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also."
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"The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting."
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