Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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The hour that followed was a long hour.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
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We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
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3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.
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My songs grow on people - like warts.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
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I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
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I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.
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A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
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Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.
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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
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Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
