Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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Being gay is immutable.
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
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A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.
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You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.
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We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
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To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer to the question, What is this like? Or, What does this remind me of? A comparison is laboriously but successfully introduced. You meet your metaphor, and it’s good.
