Gillian Anderson Quotes
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
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Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.
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To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
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I like the present and tomorrow
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
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It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
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Take it from me that your condemnation and further exhortation to the leaders of IRA/Sinn Fein is useless in the present drastic and tragic circumstances of Northern Ireland. When are you going to take action?
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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.
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It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
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Life is a series of adventures just waiting to be enjoyed.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
