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Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.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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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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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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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 like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
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When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.
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I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.
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I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.
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I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.
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Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
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The key to a successful second half is not a change of jobs; it is a change of heart, a change in the way you view the world and order your life.
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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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.
