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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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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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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Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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When we're making music together, it's like five men making love-in a very platonic sense. It's very erotic, because your spirits are intermingling, you're becoming one. It's also why it can get so heated. You're tapping into this electricity that's very primal.
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Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
