Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist...
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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Is it possible that there are no coincidences?
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.
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Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,As the flames rose to her Roman noseAnd her Walkman started to melt...
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I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
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I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.
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Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.
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I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
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When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.
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I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.
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Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
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But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist...
