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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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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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 also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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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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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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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.
