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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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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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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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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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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I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.
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A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.
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Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.
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To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
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I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.
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I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.
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I am a Mormon because I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I exercise faith in Him, I am blessed with the Holy Spirit in my life.
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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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.
