C.P. Cavafy Quotes
One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
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The next world war will be fought with stones.
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We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.
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We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.
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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.
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One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
