Walter Pater Quotes
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.
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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Being famous as a kid is weird and unhealthy.
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in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
