Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
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I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
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Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
