Cyril Connolly Quotes
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He had come back to his old fraternity house, which was my new fraternity house. We met there and just kinda stayed in touch.
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I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.
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Local people do want to see more police on the streets.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
