Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
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O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
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Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
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Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.
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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
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There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
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Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
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Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.
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I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.
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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
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Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.
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But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
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The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.
