Paul Verlaine Quotes
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
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I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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Pas la Couleur, rien que la nuance!
