Charles Ives Quotes
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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Pilates is great.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'
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Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?
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Put a puppy in your picture, and it will make it 20 times better.
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I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.
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Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.
