Edward Lear Quotes
There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared!-Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'
Quotes to Explore
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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I love receiving fan mail.
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I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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When eating out while on tour, a great place to get vegetarian food is Thai restaurants, as they have lots of options. I absolutely adore salad and vegetables - I will eat salad until it's coming out of my ears. Although I think it's great in any form, my particular favourite has to be beetroot salad.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
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I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.
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Sometimes I’m misunderstood and it’s hard to come by that. My life has been full of excitement. I’ve done pretty much what I wanted to do. I came from the Midwest, from South Dakota, and I came up the hard way. We lived on a farm; we didn’t even have electricity or running water if you know what I mean. People don’t know what that life is like.
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One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.
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Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.
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Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
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It's impossible to give it all you got and fail unless you fail to give it all you got to do the impossible.
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There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared!-Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'
