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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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
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I think that living in Indonesia also reminded me how big the world is, you know, I've... Indonesia such a big country, such a diverse country and so many different people there and it reminded me that we have to have a broad view of the world and recognize that we all are interconnected and that's very important...
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White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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Enter to grow in wisdom. / Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.
