Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.
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I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
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Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
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The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
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I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.
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Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.
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How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.
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Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.
