William Allingham Quotes
Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.
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So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
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No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.
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I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)
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Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!
