H. Rider Haggard Quotes
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party's Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, or Independent Candidate Evan McMullion.
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John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
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I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy.
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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
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Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
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Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
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The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.
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I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
