Frederic Chopin Quotes
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.
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Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
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I've been so private. That's part of the reason they've said, 'Is Romeo gay?' No. I just don't want to show you my girl - if I got a girl.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.
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I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.
