Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
James Stephens
Recitation: by Male by Female
I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
Jimi Westbrook
LifeFamilyLoveMusicPeopleThink
Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
Joanna Lumley
RememberYouBedGoBuyKeep
I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
Maxine Peake
MenGenerationPoliticalLookUp
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
John Updike
ChildBookReadingKnowLazyWant
Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.
Anand Mahindra
InnovationStepSolitudeYouKind
Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.
Steve Erickson
IndependenceBetterAmericanNothing
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.
Sissy Spacek
LifeMotherMyselfMeTryingWay
Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.
Ruth B
HomeMusicLonelinessMeFreeYou
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
Ruben Blades
LawyerMilitaryGoingFiguredRegime
Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.
Rudolf Steiner
SoulDeathSpeakBornHumanBeen
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
Jean de la Bruyere
AgeDaySingleLivedSingle Day
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Dick Cavett
ChildrenParentsChanceYouNever
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