Harold Bloom Quotes
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Obamacare does much more than provide coverage to the previously uninsured - it improves the quality of coverage for all of us. Critical cancer and other health screenings are free. Women and people with disabilities or chronic conditions are no longer charged more - or priced out of the market altogether.
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I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.
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My message to kids who bully other kids is: You know it's wrong! What's really going on? Try not to make somebody else's life miserable because you are.
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The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.
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So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.
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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.
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But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.
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I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.
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From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
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Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
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A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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Shakespeare is universal.
