Edith Sitwell Quotes
The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the SunIs greater than all gold, more powerfulThan the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumesLike all that grows or leaps... so is the heartMore powerful than all dust.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.
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The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the SunIs greater than all gold, more powerfulThan the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumesLike all that grows or leaps... so is the heartMore powerful than all dust.
