Kenneth Grahame Quotes
'Weasels - and stoats - and foxes - and so on. They're all right in a way - I'm very good friends with them - pass the time of day when we meet, and all that - but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then - well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.'
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I do not like violence.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
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Who isn't a fan of Tom Cruise? He has been in so many amazing movies.
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The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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'Weasels - and stoats - and foxes - and so on. They're all right in a way - I'm very good friends with them - pass the time of day when we meet, and all that - but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then - well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.'
