Walter Scott Quotes
Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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I was bitten by an octopus.
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You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.
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I thought it was nice that they knew how to talk and how to laugh and how to be in the world.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
