Rudyard Kipling Quotes
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
Quotes to Explore
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
Carl Hiaasen
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
Damon Galgut
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
Barbara Amiel
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
Randall Park
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
Edmund White
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The thunder rolls,And the lightnin' strikes.Another love grows coldOn a sleepless night.As the storm blows onOut of control,Deep in her heartThe thunder rolls.
Garth Brooks
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For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
Zooey Deschanel
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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
S. J. Perelman
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
Benmont Tench
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.
Ella Baker
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
Sam Altman
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'It has always seemed strange to me,' said Doc. 'The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success.'
John Steinbeck
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Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
Albert Einstein
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Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
Bent Sæther
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
