Don Marquis Quotes
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.
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I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
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The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
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I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
