Eric Maisel Quotes
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
Eric Maisel
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
Ted Dexter
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
Eddie Marsan
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
Fleur East
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
E. L. Doctorow
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I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.
Obie Trice
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
Abraham Lincoln
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
Rand Paul
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
Carl Sagan
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If the result of a war is to change nothing, but only to destroy, with the mere result that a group of human beings who do not differ notably from the conquered acquires preponderant advantages for the future, there is lacking the affective strength of an existence that has inspired faith, of an existence whose destiny would have been decided by the war.
Karl Jaspers
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Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf,Our lives would grow togetherIn sad or singing weather,Blown fields or flowerful closes,Green pasture or gray grief;If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.
Linda Lingle
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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?
Judy Garland
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If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...
Arthur Koestler
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I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
Jenny Frost
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
Hamza Yusuf
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
Eric Maisel
