Kenneth Grahame Quotes
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.
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Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
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There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
