Peter Abelard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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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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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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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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I am forever learning and changing.
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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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If you love the rule of law, you must love it in all of its applications. You cannot only love it when it provides the verdict you seek; you must love it when the verdict goes against you as well.
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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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I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.
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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.
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O quanta qualiasunt illa sabbata,quae semper celebratsuperna curia.
