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  • Henry Miller I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Jean Rostand I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Lord George Byron I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
    Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) A Book That Influenced Me
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • T. S. Eliot I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Jim Morrison I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important times.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Florence Nightingale I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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