Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.
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When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Love is, without question life's greatest experience.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
