"It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it."
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"You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were."
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"The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent."
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"When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore"
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"Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces."
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"If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"
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"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."
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"I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer."
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"I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day."
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"Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit."
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"Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting."
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"A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free."
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"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."
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"I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art."
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"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively"
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"We have to be in abundance and recognize that we're just a small piece of this big thing that's moving along the biosphere, earth, evolution and consciousness and we'd better humble ourselves and start loving each other."
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