T. S. Eliot Quotes
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.
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Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.
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Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
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When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
