Edward Young Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.
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I had great apprehension in locking lips with Namit on the screen. I come with my own prerogatives.
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I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.
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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
