T. S. Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I've always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I'd win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I'm still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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So the lover must struggle for words.
