William Faulkner Quotes
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
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We need one America - one that includes housing, education, jobs, access to capital, and economic inclusion for every American. This will create a stronger America.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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The further through life I driftThe more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
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Tonight I just need my guitar.
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
