Daniel Webster Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
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The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.
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In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.
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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
