Malcolm Cowley Quotes
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate NATO's capability to project power rapidly in the region.
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If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
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We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
