T. S. Eliot Quotes
Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Quotes to Explore
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Without hope we are lost.
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Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
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I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.
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Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.
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I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.
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Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.
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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
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Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
