Saint-John Perse Quotes
Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.
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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
