Dylan Thomas Quotes
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
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The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.
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Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.
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What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.
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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
