Vachel Lindsay Quotes
The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
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I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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Compromise in colors is grey.
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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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It is only when social movements have receded into past history... that the Church with pride turns around to claim that it was she who abolished slavery, aroused the people to liberty, and emancipated woman.
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I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
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Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic laughs. Can you believe it? That's so sad.
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From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
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Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.
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Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.
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Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
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If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.
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The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.
