Shana Alexander Quotes
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.
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Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.
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With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.
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It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morningWhen the light drips through the shutters like the dew,I arise, I face the sunrise,And do the things my fathers learned to do.Stars in the purple dusk above the rooftopsPale in a saffron mist and seem to die,And I myself on a swiftly tilting planetStand before a glass and tie my tie.
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We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.
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I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass
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Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.
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If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.
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I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.
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It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
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Haiti had leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture, Henri Christophe, and why not a second King for the Kingdom of Haiti
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They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
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How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this blood of Caesars, this sunrise of Renaissance, this baroquery of blown stone, this warm hive of Italians, this antipasto of civilization?
