Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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It does just boil down to music.
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I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
