J. B. Priestley Quotes
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I'm very open-minded.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.
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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
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To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Every day is another something that comes along.
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
