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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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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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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For some reason surfing... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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The will of man is his happiness.
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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.
