Emily Dickinson Quotes
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Quotes to Explore
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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This is from Payroll Division: I wasn’t even teaching in June, and I certainly don’t have $2.75. Apparently they don’t know I’m file # 443-817 and have got me confused with another–possibly.
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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!
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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.
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Small price to pay for beauty.
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Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
