T. S. Eliot Quotes
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.
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I'm still in love with New York. It's like a dream: there's so much to do, so much culture.
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Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
