Thomas de Quincey Quotes

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Thomas de Quincey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 15, 1785 - December 8, 1859

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

John Barton

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I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

John Curran

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We should care about what is going on in the world.

John Legend

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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Robert Smithson

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I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Michael Jackson

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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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I thought I was going to die when I was 39.

Amy Sherald

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I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Studs Terkel

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Mireille Guiliano

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Donald Trump can take his message directly to the people via rallies and addresses carried over social media. I'd call them updated versions of Roosevelt's fireside chats, but a portion of my younger readership doesn't even know what a radio is thanks to a Democrat-run education system.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Joshua Lederberg

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