Pericles Quotes
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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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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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
