T. S. Eliot Quotes
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I am a journalist.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I don't know why, but I don't fancy writing love songs; I never have.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.
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I'm surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
