Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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Well, I know me and I know you. I better get rid of all the Two Buck Chuck and the high-dollar good stuff, too. ‘Cause, baby, if I don’t, you know what we’ll do. Oh, oh, with one sip, one tip, we’ll be sitting on the couch, you’ll be kicking off your shoes.
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O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
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The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
