Lewis Carroll Quotes
You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to, you could probably employ a butler or a maid. But I'd like to have a fridge that restocks itself. I don't know what you'd call that - an automatic restocking pantry?
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?
