Alan Seeger Quotes
Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
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I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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El dolor no nos sigue: camina adelante.
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In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
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I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.
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With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
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London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.
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Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.
