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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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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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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This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.
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A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
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Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
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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.
