T. S. Eliot Quotes
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.
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From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.
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They say it's better than sex. It's so much better. It's amazing.
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You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
