Paul Verlaine Quotes
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
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I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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It's important and good to email the Federal Communications Commission, and it's important and good to educate your friends via social media about what's happening. But in a representative democracy, the way to get policy changes is through elections.
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People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.
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I had a dream. I put this choir together, this young choir together. I’m a choirmaster, a young one, and I’m hungry to have the best one in the world.
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
