William Shenstone Quotes
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Pilates is great.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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I enjoy fashion.
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A time to gain, a time to lose A time to rend, a time to sew A time of love, a time of hate A time of peace... I swear it's not too late.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
