Arthur Wellesley Quotes
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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If you're going to sign a contract, there are things you have to understand you might have to do. If you don't, then you walk away.
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I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
