T. S. Eliot Quotes
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
Quotes to Explore
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.
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In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
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I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.
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Aren’t we all animals at the end of the day? I like to show that side of me, but in a respectful way. I’m just expressing myself. It’s all about feeling good and confident about yourself, and not letting anyone else tell you what you can or can't do.
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He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
