T. S. Eliot Quotes
Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.
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There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.
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All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.
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I don't believe that you are ever done. Is life ever going to stop and stand still? We have to move as fast as the world is moving.
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Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.
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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
