Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible for the Hall Of Fame feels that the ultimate validation is enshrinement.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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'Oh, to be a minion,' muttered Giac to himself dreamily. 'I was a sub-minion.'
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Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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I was on the floor in the emergency room, and the woman came up to me and said 'Hi, my name is Gwen and I'm here to wash your vagina!'
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
