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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The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.
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Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
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Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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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.
