Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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Anytime you start out slow like that it's a concern. You don't want to have the reputation of being a slow-starting team because you're not always going to be able to come back. We've been fortunate we've come back and won, but it could easily have gone the other way.
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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
