Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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Every outing is a learning experience.
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Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
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He had what we often lack — the maturity to see that faith isn’t something you either have or don’t have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith. Where there is absolute certainty, there can be no room for faith.
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Money never sleeps.
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Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
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For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
