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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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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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 intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn’t agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o
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I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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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.
