T. S. Eliot Quotes
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!
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I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
