Callimachus Quotes
Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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Be thou erect, or be made erect.
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It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.
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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.
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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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They had absolutely no sexual interest in me.
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Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
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Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever
