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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If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of.
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You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.
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The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.
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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.
