E. M. Forster Quotes
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
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Money isn't automatically freedom. You need to look carefully at what you're doing to earn the money before you can conclude that you are, in practice, free. This is a cost-benefit analysis we should all perform on our own lives.
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
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My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
