William Empson Quotes
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
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I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.
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It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
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I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
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Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
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I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
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You find me offensive? I find you offensive, for finding me offensive.
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All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
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Each gleaming point of light is like a seedDilating swiftly to coiling fires.Each cloud becomes a rapidly dimming face,Each hurrying face records its strange desires.
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I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.
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Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.
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We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
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It quickly became apparent that the Germans were interested in using our strength but not in preserving it. We received a ration of “flower coffee”—made not from coffee beans but from flowers, or maybe acorns. We each had half a loaf of bread, which had to last us from Sunday to Wednesday. At midday, we had a cold soup made from broken asparagus that couldn’t be sold, or a mustard soup with potatoes, and maybe a hard-boiled egg. At night, we had a milk soup; on lucky days, it contained some oatmeal.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.
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Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
