H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.
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The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.
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It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
