Ernest Shackleton Quotes
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
