Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!
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If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
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Everyone had something unique to offer in life and their responsibility was to develop those gifts - and heroes come from all backgrounds.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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The Premier League is so difficult.
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The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
