Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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We eat all organic at home, so if we're running around and the kids want a hot dog or pretzel, I'll get it for them.
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Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.… Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism-and I say it with such gusto-capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
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Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.
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There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
