John Robert Seeley Quotes
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
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Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end-when all else is dust-loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
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Lord I love my man, tell the world I do I love my man, tell the world I do But when he mistreats me Makes me feel so blue.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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Find what makes you feel comfortable. The confidence you wear your clothes in is what's really going to shine.
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
