Arthur Symons Quotes
The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
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I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
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The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.
