Alfred Billings Street Quotes
The west with second pomp is bright though in the east the dusk is thickening, twilight's first star breaks forth in white, into night's gold each moment quickening.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
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I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, ‘Well, it’s men hurting other men.’ When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, ‘Well, it’s blacks hurting blacks.’ The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.
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It was ages ago in life's first wonder I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, In a far, first world now turned to story, Now faded back to dream.
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No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.
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For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.
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The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.
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They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
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When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.
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The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.
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The west with second pomp is bright though in the east the dusk is thickening, twilight's first star breaks forth in white, into night's gold each moment quickening.
