Homer Quotes
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?
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'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow,And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low:So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,No more through rolling clouds to soar again,View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
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Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
