Walter Pater Quotes
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Even with God’s help there is no substitute for the hard work.
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I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
