Arthur Symons Quotes
They weave a slow andante as in sleep,Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keepA treachery of silence; infinite.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Music is a language.
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
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Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.
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Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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They weave a slow andante as in sleep,Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white;With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keepA treachery of silence; infinite.
