Eliza Farnham Quotes
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
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Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
