Alfred the Great Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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The timeless moment. - The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
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I love breakfast - I like going to sleep at night because I know I get to wake up and eat in the morning.
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The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.
