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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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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What I've learned in my career as an actor is that you're only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like 'Westworld,' which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we're just now on the 7th episode.
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I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them. And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven'tslept for three days.
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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.
