A. E. Housman Quotes
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I'm not graceful.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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Some people are mean, and when you look at their page, they only write mean things, but I have a great time with a twitter person. It's not even to promote myself, just to entertain me.
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.
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For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.
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Sailing is not a romantic song
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Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.
