Denton Welch Quotes
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
H. C. Bailey
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
Kapil Dev
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
Fede Alvarez
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
Oscar Hammerstein
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
Karin Slaughter
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
Pat Boone
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
Ted Sarandos
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
Valentino Garavani
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
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General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.
Randy Pausch
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
Ada Lovelace
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
Anna Akhmatova
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I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'
Ai Weiwei
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
Aldo Leopold
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No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
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We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there.
Jack Straw
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God has his plan, and I'm just going along with it.
Kimberly Quinn
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If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.
Ashley Wagner
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Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
William Shakespeare
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When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch