Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'
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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
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It's funny: the one time I got star-struck was when I met Snoop Dogg. I gave him a hug and said, 'I love you, man.'
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
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The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.
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Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
