Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I don't watch much television.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it. A lot of people don't feel comfortable in doing this but I think we need to, as the Pope says, preach the whole gospel of life.
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I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
