T. S. Eliot Quotes
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.
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When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
