Alexander Pope Quotes
What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
Quotes to Explore
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
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My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I dont like it is when Im off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
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The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
