Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Oh I'm just a man, that's the way I was made.I'm not too good at sayin' what you need me to say.It's always right there on the tip of my tongue.It might go unsaid but it won't go undone.So when those three little words come so easy to you,I hope you know what I mean when I say, me too.
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It is a pretty structure isn’t it? It makes you think of something solid, stable, well-linked. In fact it happens also in chemistry as in architecture that 'beautiful' edifices, that is, symmetrical and simple, are also the most sturdy: in short, the same thing happens with molecules as with the cupolas of cathedrals of the arches of bridges.
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
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A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.
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Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
