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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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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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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I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think, naturally, my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry, I became very objective and analytical of myself early on, and I find myself doing that in everything.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.
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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.
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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.
