Alexander Pope Quotes
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
