Stevie Smith Quotes
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.
Janet Jackson
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
Lalah Hathaway
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
Jon Bon Jovi
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I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
Tony Kushner
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Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
Francois Mitterrand
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
John Tillotson
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You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
George Foreman
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All celebrities are real people behind everything.
Vinny Guadagnino
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Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
Virender Sehwag
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
William Hazlitt
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The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.
William Plomer
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare
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Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
William Shakespeare
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When George VI - displaying a flair for timing that was utterly absent in his lifetime - upped and died, the way was clear for her to inhabit her logical position as the eminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
Will Self
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Willem de Kooning
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
William Butler Yeats
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Seneca the Younger
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
Alvar Aalto
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I'm feeling a lot of love right now. But I'm sorry. I've got a muzzle on me. I'm a rookie.
Ellis Hobbs
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This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith