Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.
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And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.
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Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.
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I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.
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It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
