Elmer Davis Quotes
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.
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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
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I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.
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In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
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A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
