Peter Abelard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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Fear controls you.
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.
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People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.
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Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.
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I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.
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That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.
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Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.
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I am very driven.
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As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
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I'm not always so nice.
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I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
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You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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O quanta qualiasunt illa sabbata,quae semper celebratsuperna curia.
