Bart Cummings Quotes
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
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Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
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People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.
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Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
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... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.
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Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?
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My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.
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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
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Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
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The past is getting clearer and clearer
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.
