John Keats Quotes
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
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I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state.
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When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
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To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!
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I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
