Alfred Austin Quotes
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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There's no business like show business.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.
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As a child I had terrible asthma.
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.
