Allen Tate Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
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Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.
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You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
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The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
