Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.
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Character is always more caught than taught.
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The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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For love reflects the thing beloved.
