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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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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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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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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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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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
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We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy.
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President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.
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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.
