T. S. Eliot Quotes
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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I am committed to helping our farmers in any way that I can.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
