Elmer Davis Quotes
History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. Contributors: Elmer Davis - author. Publisher: New York Times.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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The three-toed tree-toadSings his sweet odeTo the moon;The funny bunnyAnd his honeyTrip in tune.
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I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
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The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
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History of the New York Times, 1851-1921. Contributors: Elmer Davis - author. Publisher: New York Times.
