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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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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 love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.
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A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.
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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.
