Alexander Pope Quotes
Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.
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History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
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Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
