Carroll Quigley Quotes
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
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My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
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But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.
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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.
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Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.
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There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell divine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and evening Apollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet.
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My mom is positive and optimistic.
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There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
