William Gilmore Simms Quotes
It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.
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I was the World Champ, but I should be better.
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If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
