Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
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No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.
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Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.
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You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.
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No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
