William Ellery Channing Quotes
My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
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It's like a pylon.
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My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
