Aoife O'Donovan Quotes
You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.
Aoife O'Donovan
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D. H. Lawrence
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
Harold Rosenberg
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Rand always says, 'Never pass up an opportunity to pass moral judgment.' Well I say: 'Look for an opportunity to do something more useful instead.' Nobody was led to virtue by being told he was a scoundrel.
Nathaniel Branden
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1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.
Larry Niven
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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
Kahlil Gibran
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
Hillary Clinton
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Σεμνόστομός γε καὶ φρονήματος πλέωςὁ μῦθός ἐστιν, ὡς θεῶν ὑπηρέτου.
Aeschylus
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Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better.
Louis L'Amour
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He was short on the one attribute certain to meet the immediate respect of the rich - i.e. being rich - and must therefore obtrude deterrents against being buggered about.
Kingsley Amis
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Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
Aleister Crowley
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There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
Jeff Bridges