Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?" "What?" "Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?" "I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.
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So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.
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All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.
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It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.
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You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.
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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
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I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
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There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
