T. S. Eliot Quotes

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

T. S. Eliot

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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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• I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.

  

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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

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• I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

  

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• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

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• I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

  

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• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

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• I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

  

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• I'm the third of five children.

  

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• I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

  

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• I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

  

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• I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

  

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• I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

  

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• I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

  

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• I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

  

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  

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• China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

  

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• The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

  

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• It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

  

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• We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

  

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• Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.

  

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• O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

  

  T. S. Eliot