T. S. Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
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My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
