George Gilfillan Quotes
Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
George Gilfillan
Quotes to Explore
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
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You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
Ellie Goulding
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
Oswald Chambers
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I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
Alan Alda
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
Alan Alda
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
Andre Bazin
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
ASAP Rocky
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Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.
Neil Abramson
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Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.
Steve Berry
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Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
Harry Shearer
