Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
'Guess now who holds thee?'-'Death,' I said. But thereThe silver answer rang-'Not Death, but Love.'
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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What they call 'play' (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.
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'Guess now who holds thee?'-'Death,' I said. But thereThe silver answer rang-'Not Death, but Love.'
