Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
