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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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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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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However, the danger in socially unbalanced relationships is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.
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Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.
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I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.
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The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
