Walter Pater Quotes

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

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• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
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• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
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• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
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• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
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• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
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• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  

  Carl Jung
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• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
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• Modern physics... reduces matter to a set of events which proceed outward from a centre. If there is something further in the centre itself, we cannot know about it, and it is irrelevant to physics.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Passion

• I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
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