Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
Ian Anderson
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
Tabatha Coffey
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
Kate Voegele
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
Ian Anthony Dale
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Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. What was immoral and shameful — promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide — has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzsche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues.
Pat Buchanan
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Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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'What the Republicans have been doing is an insult to America. ...These are foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging neanderthals.' Questioned, 'Why are you name-calling?' 'I didn't call names, what I said is true.'
Alan Grayson
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The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.
Louis Sullivan
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To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Bertrand Russell
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Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.
Aldous Huxley
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Eddie Marsan is just my favourite actor of all time. I love everything he's been in, so it's a dream come true to work with him.
Abi Morgan
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The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
Paul Bloom
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Of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently - though as little of one as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society
Aldous Huxley
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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
Ted Lange
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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
