Kenneth Grahame Quotes
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.
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Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.
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It shows courage, and it shows commitment to move beyond the status-quo politics of rhetoric, which is all the Cuban-American community has received from any party for the last half century.
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I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
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It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
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Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong.
