Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
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Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
