Homer Quotes
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
Quotes to Explore
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.
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I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
