Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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Women can better perceive injustice.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
