T. E. Hulme Quotes
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Africa is the future.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
