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 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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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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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
