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Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I ...

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When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, a...

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I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of wri...

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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazin...

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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length...

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The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.

Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic s...

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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind...

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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot ...

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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regre...

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I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. S...

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Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I ca...

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I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense o...

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I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to tra...

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When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where mov...

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Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attract...

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She was only really a female to him.But perhaps that was better. And after all, he was kind to the f...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover:

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eye...

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Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bush...

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I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolat...

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I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's ...

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Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways i...

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I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that k...

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Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound...

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sound...

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Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the ...

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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fa...

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Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it...

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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing ab...

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We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguish...

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation tha...

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Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner...

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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of int...

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Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...

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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of ...

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an orga...

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We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poiso...

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Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...

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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and env...

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As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work ...

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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist a...

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Music is a safe kind of high.

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...

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I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one...

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There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is...

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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more...

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It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then,...

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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a yea...

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I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You ...

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I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion...

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There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...

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