Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
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The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
