A. A. Milne Quotes
If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
Quotes to Explore
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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The devil made me do it.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
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A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I've made major cutbacks. I used to love soda. So I've cut out soda completely, and I'll drink iced tea or water for what I drink throughout my day. I just made that like a lifestyle change.
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I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
