Louisa May Alcott Quotes
I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.
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When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
