Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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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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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
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I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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I write my music.
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
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I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
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New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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'All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.'
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The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
