Bosie (Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) Quotes
The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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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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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.
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Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.
