E. M. Forster Quotes
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
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The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.
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Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
