I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate … - Susan Sontag

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I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

Susan Sontag

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Alienation, Engagement, Kinds, Passionate, Wake Up

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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Changed, Easier, Endure, Recall

The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

Cancer, Ideologies, Planet, Race, Upset, White

. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Writing, Because I Can, Smarter, Rewrite, Write

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Beautiful, Beauty, Feminine, Masculine, Men, Women

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Understanding, World, Accepting, Appears, Begins

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George Harrison

There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.

Cycle, Grooving, Ideas, Ignorance, Indian, Thinking

Vincent Van Gogh

We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.

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David Morse

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

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Alex Ferguson

I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.

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Lord Byron

And what is writ is writ -
Would it were worthier!

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