T. S. Eliot Quotes
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
Quotes to Explore
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.
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You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
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I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.
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Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.
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Men make history. History does not make the man.
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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
