Alfred Noyes Quotes
Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
Quotes to Explore
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!
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If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
