Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.
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Of what significance the things you can forget? A little thought is sexton to all the world.
