Alan Seeger Quotes
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
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VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group text or Twitter stream of commentary playing out across time zones when a team is playing, our avatars could inhabit virtual stands, side by side with the rest of our digital tribe.
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The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
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I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.
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Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
