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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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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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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I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
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I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.
