Lord Byron Quotes
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
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Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
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Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Any time you can rally, that's something you can build on and you reach back. If you've got a game like that and you're down, and say, 'Hey, remember what we did at Kansas State.
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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
