Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.
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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'
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An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to … kissing.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
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I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.
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It's better not to argue with women.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.
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And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.
