Quotes About Repetition

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides,

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides, of course, made that principle the justification of his work.

Ich bin kein Fan von Dingen, die zu Ende gehen. Deshalb drehe ich mich wahrscheinlich immer im Kreis.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition: content, ideological schema, the blurring of contradictions--these are repeated, but the superficial forms are varied: always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Man buys ring woman throws it away Same old thing happens everyday

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I'm always freaking people out because I'll be out somewhere and I'll hear someone say something and then later on I'll say it again word for word. It's almost like recording it in your head.

Think of Hridaynath Mangeshkar's 'Mira bhajans.' I have bought these records three to four times, as I listen to them so often.

It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

You know 'The Shawshank Redemption?' I've seen that movie, like, 30 times or something. 'Dirty Harry,' too - I love that movie.

Sometimes, you get kind of redundant by learning the same offense over and over again.

A lot of people will refer to comics by number to me, and I'll realize they're expecting me to remember all the comics by number. And I can't even remember what I ate this morning, let alone which comic was #473!

Most filmmakers give me the reference of my own songs; doing the same thing over and over again doesn't push you to do better.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved