Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Quotes to Explore
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
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Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.
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This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.
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My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
