T. S. Eliot Quotes

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

T. S. Eliot

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• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  

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• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

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• I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'

  

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

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• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

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• I would like to do something to help people and help the world.

  

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• The world wants to like America.

  

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• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

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• I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

  

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• Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

  

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• We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.

  

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• Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

  

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• If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

  

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• When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Running
  • Crazy