Jean Ingelow Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.
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My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: 'The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.'
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Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...
