Dante Alighieri Quotes
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.
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The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
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My mom always bails me out of things when I get in trouble.
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Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.
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We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.
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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
