Alexander Pope Quotes
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Quotes to Explore
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
Fetty Wap
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
Rachael Taylor
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
Lance Gross
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
Parker Posey
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Samantha Bee
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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I played point guard my whole life.
Zach LaVine
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
Gary Ackerman
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
Eddie Trunk
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Jack Ma
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I always thought I was going to be on the other side of the camera. That's where I found myself. I found out that I could write when I was 17, right before you go to college, so it was a passion of mine.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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I started making music when I was about 15 - I was always into knowing how records were made. I was into The Kinks, David Bowie and Phil Spector and in bands at school but when I left I wanted to do my own thing and make albums.
Julian Perretta
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You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
Bob Feller
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
