Edward Joseph Young Quotes
He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
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We must not turn away when we hear the cries of the hungry. We must not stand by when we see the killing and terrorizing of the innocent. We should not wait until hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of our fellow human beings have died as occurred in Afghanistan, before we act.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
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Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.
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criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307
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But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.
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I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
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Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
