A. E. Housman Quotes

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
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We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
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Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.