Charles Godfrey Leland Quotes
If all the world must see the worldAs the world the world hath seen,Then it were better for the worldThat the world had never been.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
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The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.
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We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"
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If all the world must see the worldAs the world the world hath seen,Then it were better for the worldThat the world had never been.
