Sappho Quotes
The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
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A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
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Off to Azerbaijan!
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Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.
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I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.
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The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.
