Hart Crane Quotes

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
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• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
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• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  

  Maimonides
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• The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Work
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• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
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• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  

  E. M. Forster

• The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lost

• The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • War
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• I'm all about a big lash. I love a good mascara. I use Tom Ford lipsticks. I think he has the most vibrant colours, especially pink or orange or vampish reds, and that's about it.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Good
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• When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Happy
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• In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.

  

  Du Yun
  • People
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• Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Long
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• There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • Up
  • Walking

• I think as a pregnant woman we're all looking for stuff that makes us all look cute and fashionable and feel sexy when we're pregnant.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Sexy
  • Cute

• When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake blood is being spurted out at you for two minutes, it's incredibly fun, and you're in character for that time. You can't really believe that that's your job.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Time
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• Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • People
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• There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly. The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Together
  • Black
  • Feeling

• Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Fake
  • Ruin
  • Mockery