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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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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I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.
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There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.
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Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.
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Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.
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I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.
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I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
