Christina Rossetti Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
V. S. Naipaul
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
Rachel Dratch
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Edgard Varese
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
T. E. Hulme
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
Madeleine Albright
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
Laura Prepon
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
Carlton Fisk
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
Kate Atkinson
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
Maddie Ziegler
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It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse.
Gabriel Marcel
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I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.
Kelsea Ballerini
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Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
Ahmet Ertegun
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I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.
Chris Kyle
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
Idris Elba
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Walter Kirn
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The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.
Christina Rossetti
