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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On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.
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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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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.
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I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
