H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
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I'm a character actor.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
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Fear, to people who have been in aviation and combat (such as) fighter pilots ... is something you learn how to deal with and set aside, ... It's a very disabling emotion. You want to be alert as you possibly can.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
