E. M. Forster Quotes
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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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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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
