Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
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No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o’er the disentangled doom.
