Lucretius Quotes
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
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I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.
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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
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All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead...
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I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.
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Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.
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Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
