#nothing

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid. ↗

— Bruno Mars

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If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain. ↗

— Catherine Ndereba

#i #nothing #sacrifice

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #doing #had #him #i

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#everything #fans #i #i am #me

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#back #flies #free #him #holds

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#entertaining #half #i #more #much

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ↗

— Carson McCullers

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