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.

  

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

  

  Ralph Marston
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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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• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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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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• Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

  

  Rahul Dravid
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• Be less afraid to be different.

  

  Alex Sharp
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• Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
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• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• 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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