T. S. Eliot Quotes
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
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I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.
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Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
