#amuse

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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.


Frank Black


#any #because #break #certain #easy

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.


Bret Easton Ellis


#angeles #anyone #believe #book #going

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.


W. E. B. Du Bois


#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

I amused myself playing with the journalists.


Brigitte Boisselier


#i #journalists #myself #playing

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.


Brian Eno


#amusement #been #find #fun #general

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.


Arthur Erickson


#amuse #bit #dark #delusion #desolation

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.


Mahatma Gandhi


#amusement #applied #idle #instrument #most

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.


Lewis Carroll


#apart #danger #deeper #exercising #full

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.


Giacomo Casanova


#both #conscience #deceived #fools #i

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.


Hillary Clinton


#amuse #changing #constantly #hair #i