Charles Ives Quotes
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
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Thought is as much a lie as love or faith.
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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
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If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
