Robert Frost Quotes
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Quotes to Explore
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
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I can play all I know in eight bars.
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Get the big idea and all else follows.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
