Emily Dickinson Quotes

A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.
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Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.