William Ellery Channing Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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I have matured a lot.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
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Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
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Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
