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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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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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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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
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With 'Invisible,' I didn't want to create something that requires you to watch it more than once; I don't even expect people to watch it more than once per se. I just wanted you to have the experience and knowing that if you watch it a second time, it would be different because you would see different things.
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While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
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In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
