The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas
Recitation: by Male by Female
To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.
Johannes Heesters
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My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
John Collison
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I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.
Anna Faris
RefreshingPlayingBeingMinuteIdea
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman
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I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.
Sufjan Stevens
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And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.
Tony Kushner
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson
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The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
Domenico Dolce
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If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
Johnny Vegas
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Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
David Wenham
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I didn't want to write travelogues.
Deborah Eisenberg
WantWrite
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.
Arca
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