Edmund Gosse Quotes
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.
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In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.
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I was a very wanting child.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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I like small, domestic stories.
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Why are they people more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
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I will be always grateful to NBC.
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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.
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I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
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The past is a funeral gone by.
