Edmund Waller Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
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I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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-music's powerIs little felt in sunlit hour;But hear its voice when hopes depart,Like swallows, flying from the heartOn which the summer's late declineHas set a sadness and a sign;. . . . . .How deeply will the spirit feelThe lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;And how the heart drink in their sighsAs echoes they from Paradise.
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I'm a very self-conscious person.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
