Knute Nelson Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
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I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
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I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
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…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
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Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.
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When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.
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I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
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Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.
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It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.
