Lord Byron Quotes
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.
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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
