Bosie (Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) Quotes
It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit of man comes really to need another, he will be there.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
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One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait The establishing of a fact.
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Experience teaches only the teachable…
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'
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Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
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There are very serious reasons to doubt that Jesus was buried decently and that his tomb was discovered to be empty ... Faith is not historical knowledge, and historical knowledge is not faith.
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It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit of man comes really to need another, he will be there.
