Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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I worked my face off.
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I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.
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I've never written a book before.
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I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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If it were legal, I'd marry food.
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In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
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True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
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Happiness is a decision I must make.
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The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
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I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Life began after I fell in love with you.
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The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
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I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!
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Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions.
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One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
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I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
