Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
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Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.
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I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.
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To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
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She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!'
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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Bruce sees a lot of himself in Batman, you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to Duke's parents, who are now Joker-ized. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.
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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
