T. S. Eliot Quotes
I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
Quotes to Explore
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.
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It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
