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.

  

  Paloma Picasso
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• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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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.

  

  Laura Harring
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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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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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.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Care
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• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
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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.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • California
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• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
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• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
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• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
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• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
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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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Long
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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.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• 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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Nothing
  • More

• It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Better
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• Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Help
  • Girl
  • Smile

• Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

  

  Bill Keller

• People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Thinking
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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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Thinking
  • Food