Lord Byron Quotes
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.
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In law also the emphasis makes the song.
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Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.
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I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.
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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
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I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn't start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you're in a boy band, you kinda have to.
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I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
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We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.
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Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.
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Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
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Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
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I could never deny myself bein' an artist.
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I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.
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It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.
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The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
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There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.
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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
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Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
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I really love large and comfy dresses.
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In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.
