Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Quotes to Explore
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
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I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
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La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
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Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
