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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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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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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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
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Come Taste the Band. That was the only Deep Purple lineup I really liked. It was really funky and different for hard rock.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
