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Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.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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To manage your mind, know that there is nothing, and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
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You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.
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Seven hearts the journey make. Seven ways the hearts will break. Bravest heart will carry on When sleep is death, and hope is gone. Look in the fiery jaws of fear And see the answer white and clear, Then throw away all thoughts of home, For only then your quest is done.
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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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.
