Ambrose Philips Quotes
The stag in limpid currents with surprise Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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I love taking chances.
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Imagination comes in after we have experience.
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There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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The stag in limpid currents with surprise Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.
