Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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I am happy in Paris.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
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Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.
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When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
