Conrad Aiken Quotes
What was this dream we had, a dream of music,Music that rose from the opening earth like magicAnd shook its beauty upon us and died away?The long cold streets extend once more before us.The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
Ted Turner
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
Paris Hilton
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Harold Warner
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
Katey Sagal
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
Yohan Blake
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
J. H. Wyman
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
Saffron Burrows
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
Octavia E. Butler
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
Karen Hughes
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
Xavier Dolan
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I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
Matthew Vaughn
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One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
Marshall McLuhan
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My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.
Nathaniel Fick
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What was this dream we had, a dream of music,Music that rose from the opening earth like magicAnd shook its beauty upon us and died away?The long cold streets extend once more before us.The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.
Conrad Aiken