Wilfrid Sheed Quotes
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
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I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
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I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
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I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
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Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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If he's convicted, ... once all the appeals have been exhausted, the rules do allow for him to be executed within 30 days of that.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.
