Quotes About Repetition

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I have, like, 'Finders Keepers' fever now! Sometimes I go in the studio, and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes, so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano, it'll happen again.'

My wife is the host of 'Big Brother.' Her name is Julie Chen, and she'll say, 'Da da da, but first we do this.' So they mashed together her saying 'but first' a couple dozen times. Literally. In different outfits. And when you cut it together like that, it appears very robotlike. They called her the Chenbot.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

I don't think two blokes having the same fucking argument for 16 years over and over is the stuff of opera. Oasis: the Opera would be very short. The fat lady would refuse to sing it.

My ideas are recycled.

spoon, jar, jar jar spoon

Those who ignore history are condemned to retweet it.

I went out with some FBI agents and knocked the ball into all eighteen holes. It wasn't hard but once you've done it, I don't know why you'd want to do it again.

You know what I hate?' she said. 'When people say that history repeats itself. That's the scariest thing I can think of.

It's something you learn after your second theme party: It's all been done before.

more compact and self-assured. An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.

Je moet dingen nooit herhalen. Dat zou een verkeerd einde zijn.

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.

It's as if the entire human race were one big village of people whispering over and over the same message to each other, so that no one can help but believe it.

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear . . .

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?