Daniel Webster Quotes
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.
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The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
