Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh’s ambition to sleep ‘under the stars’.
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I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
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If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
