Charles William Eliot Quotes
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
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When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.
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Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
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To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.
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People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
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Enter to grow in wisdom. / Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.
