H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
Quotes to Explore
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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I hate birthdays.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
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I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.
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Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
