James Joyce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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A glimpse heavenward at a constellation or even at a single star only suggests infinity; actually our vision is limited. We cannot perceive unlimited space; it is immeasurable. The universe, as we know it through our visual experience, is limited. It first came into existence with the formation of matter, and will end with the complete dissolution of matter.
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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
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If we can't remove a member of Congress who has been convicted of 10 felonies - including using his office for personal gain - we risk losing the faith and trust of the American people that we have.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another. (p. 298)
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It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)
