James Joyce Quotes
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Circumretit enim vis atque iniuria quemque,atque, unde exortast, at eum plerumque revertit.
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
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He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.
