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Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907

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Light Man Him Absolutely How Custom

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

Me Important Say Discourse Advocate

Tom Hardy is such a good egg. He's a total teddy bear. He loves his dogs and his kids. He's a true artist. But he's a lovely, naughty, funny man.

Funny Good Man Egg Artist True

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Writing Voice Deep Self You Strange

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

Government Duty State Reasonable

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

College London Diary Two University

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

Love Good Home I Am Practice Hotel

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

Robert B. Laughlin

Science Conflict Philosophy Prejudice

I have friends who don't even know I'm diabetic. I don't hide it, but it's the last thing I need to tell someone. I take my insulin with every meal and have kidney drugs twice a day, but that is, like, habit. That's how I deal with it.

Day Habit Friends Someone Hide Know

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Family Love Friends And Family New

I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

Heart Joy Tears Unexpected Tide Now

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

People Mind Eye Treat Think Look

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Beauty Proud American Movies Like

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