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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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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I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
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The nice thing about 'Samson & Delilah' is that the team behind it are real hustlers - they really want it to happen.
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The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
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And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.
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It's better to die than to never really have lived.
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Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have—but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
