Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
