Vachel Lindsay Quotes
Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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Acting's boring.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
