Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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I mean, like, I can go in a room and say, look, 'Watchmen' should be at least 15 minutes longer than 'Batman.' I mean, that's, like, any geek will tell you that.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.
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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
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I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.
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When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
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By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
