Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Hear the other side.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene … All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts. (p. 152)
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Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
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Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way.
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A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
