Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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Less than the weed that grows beside thy door
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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Sloan American colleague artist who started his art by making etchings, c. 1920 not having been abroad in contrary to Hopper himself, has seen these things with a truer and fresher eye than most.. .The hard early training has given to Sloan a facility and a power of invention that the pure painter seldom achieves.
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
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When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before. He replied that the Prize was something you could get only once. Whereupon the small girl thought a moment: 'Oh' she said, 'so it's like chicken-pox.'
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And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
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You have to open up on stage.
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There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."
