The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.
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Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU God is the giver of ideas. When He gives you an idea, it is not just about you. There is an audience... KIM BOOHER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal... GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others th... CHINESE PROVERBS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others... CHINESE PROVERB The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you ... MICKEY HART When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i... SHAH RUKH KHAN How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving. CRAIG GROESCHEL Knowledge isn't the issue, it's what you think you know that's not the truth. RICK PRICE A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coale... KEVIN BROCKMEIER You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. 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ROMAN GARY I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge... NANCY ROMAN At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur... ROMAN JAKOBSON When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to s... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, ... ROMAN COPPOLA As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o... ROMAN REIGNS Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ROMAN POLANSKI I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories... ROMAN COPPOLA Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t... ROMAN JAKOBSON It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbin... ROMAN JAKOBSON To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o... ANNE ROMAN Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free In... ANNE ROMAN When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping th... ANNE ROMAN Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff. ANNE ROMAN We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e... ANNE ROMAN If it's a good tourism season, there'll be some hiring done at our stores. Tourism drives (hiring) t... ANNE ROMAN You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would ... ROMAN REIGNS Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything... ROMAN REIGNS Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b... NANCY ROMAN In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec... ROMAN JAKOBSON The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel... ROMAN COPPOLA I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese... ROMAN COPPOLA Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as comi... ROMAN JAKOBSON I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for... ROMAN REIGNS Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking abo... ROMAN COPPOLA Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type. ROMAN REIGNS After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely differ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH