T. S. Eliot Quotes

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

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• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

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• I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

  

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

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• I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

  

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

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• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

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• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

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• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

  

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• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

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• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

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• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

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• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

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• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

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• Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

  

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• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

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• You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

  

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• My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

  

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• We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

  

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• Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

  

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• There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books - and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them - that's just overwhelming to me now.

  

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• There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

  

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• But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Why
  • Faith
  • Mystery