Matthew Prior Quotes
His noble negligences teachWhat others' toils despair to reach.
Matthew Prior
Quotes to Explore
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Mae West
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Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
Lamar S. Smith
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. Harvey
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
Eddie Murphy
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
Rachel Kushner
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
Paracelsus
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You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
Tea Obreht
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
Yuri Milner
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
Octavia Spencer
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
Rand Paul
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
Walter Crane