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#motives

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I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.


Sophie Ellis Bextor


#complicated #course #doubts #feel #getting

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.


Earle Brown


#creation #motives #music #non-political #politically

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.


Bram Fischer


#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.


David Frum


#choices #control #events #just #makes

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.


Cornelia Funke


#books #england #fairytales #found #german

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.


Hans-Georg Gadamer


#art #audience #consumer #distance #maintain

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.


Chris Matthews


#important #iraq #israel #lot #mixed

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.


Ayn Rand


#ever #force #good #motive #motives

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.


Charles Mengel Allen


#board #human #more #motives #same

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.


Samuel Johnson


#motives #secret #though #visible






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