William Ernest Henley Quotes
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I don't really yell at people.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.
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Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
