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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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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Hatred observes with more care than love does.
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Part of being an actor is never knowing where your next part is coming from.
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I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.
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You cannot possibly be reaching the needs of your consumers when the makeup of your company is not reflective of the community you serve.
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I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
