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.

  

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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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• 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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• 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.

  

  Ione Skye
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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
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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
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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.

  

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

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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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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• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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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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• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

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• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  

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• I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

  

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• I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

  

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• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

  

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• Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.

  

  Aaron Bruno
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• Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.

  

  Keith Teare
  • Good
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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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  • Food