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As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.
Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.
Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.
If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.
I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.
One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.
When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.