Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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I wake up in the morning, all I think is flipCount a couple hundreds, flip a couple bricksTime to hit the plug now, need another flipCounting all this money, got me filthy rich
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I gave you my life, you gave me my life. Like a gush of wind in my hair. Why do we forget what's been said And play the game of life with our hearts?
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I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.
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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.
