Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
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Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.
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My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
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When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
