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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I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.
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Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. And it has been proven as much of an illusion in Stalinist Russia as it proven an illusion in pre-Hitler Germany. Communism in anything but name was abandoned in Russia when the Five-Year Plan was substituted for the New Economic Policy (NEP) after Lenin’s death.
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Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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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.
