Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
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One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
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I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
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Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.
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The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
