Bosie (Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) Quotes
I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change.
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I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.
