Homer Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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The silent annexation is ongoing. The Democratic Progressive Party’s loss of power might be tolerable, but the loss of sovereignty in our time would be an irreversible mistake that would jeopardize future generations.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.
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It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.
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Ἑκὼν γὰρ οὐδεὶς δουλίῳ χρῆται ζυγῷ.
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Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
