Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
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We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
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I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.
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The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.
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When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.
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Where love could walk with banish'd, Hope no more.
