Richard Aldington Quotes
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
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Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
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When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.
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I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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'For cruel ’tis,' said she,'To steal my Basil-pot away from me.'
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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.
