Eddie Slovik Quotes
I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
Quotes to Explore
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I like things simple.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I'm not well read.
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Like most Southerners, I visit battlefields. Southerners will visit almost any battlefield anywhere, but we are especially fond of the Civil War scenes because we know who fought where and how they did their fighting.
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Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.
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As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
