F. R. Leavis Quotes
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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I've never been a partier.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
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I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.
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Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
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Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
