William Allingham Quotes
Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.
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I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.
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For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
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Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.
