I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Alexander Pope

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Mindy Kaling

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Thomas Jefferson

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Jeb Bush

I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.

Jeff Sampson

A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water.

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Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

Maya Angelou

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry Kissinger

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Lord Chesterfield

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Napoleon Bonaparte