Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.
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There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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You can have a big hit and not get rich.
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We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.
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The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
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Dead sounds at night come from the inmost hills. Like footsteps upon wool.
