Billy Sunday Quotes
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?
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It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be 'killed off by one critique' or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better; a sentiment in which I for one humbly but heartily concur.
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In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
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I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
