Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
Quotes to Explore
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge to our native soil. God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all.
