H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Love is a state of being.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
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After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
