Walter Scott Quotes
'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
