Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.
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A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.
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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
