Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
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'Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?''We won’t know until we try,' Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.
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I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.
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We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
