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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Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
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I feel intimidated by fashion.
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Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.
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When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.
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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.
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By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
