Walter Pater Quotes
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
Ira Sachs
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
Carly Fiorina
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
Tamsin Egerton
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
Jack Scalia
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
Manu Bennett
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
J. K. Simmons
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
G. Willow Wilson
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
Zell Miller
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It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!
Chely Wright
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I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
Joe Arpaio
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
Quentin S. Crisp
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
