T. S. Eliot Quotes
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
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Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
