A. E. Housman Quotes
We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.
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Earth, Wind & Fire was something new. I wanted to bring something innovative to the music. It was out of a desire to create excitement with music that was pleasurable to play and listen to.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Reasonably, all these fossil fuel investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters.
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Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
