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“And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.”
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“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.”
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“Trust your first instinct.”
Source : "Interview with Singer, Songwriter Kelis". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.”
Source : Peter Scott (2008). “There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage”, p.105, Penguin
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“Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
Source : Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977
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“I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.”
Source : Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media
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“Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.”