Billy Collins Quotes
When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
Billy Collins
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
Sam Altman
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
Ike Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
Saint Patrick
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
Palmer Luckey
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I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.
Calvin Harris
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For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.
Peter Greenaway
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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Katherine Dunn
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
Harriet Walter
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Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.
Lisa Marie Presley
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I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.
Corey Hart
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When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
Billy Collins