Augustus Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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The devil made me do it.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
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I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
