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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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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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
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If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.
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A person has already made the effort once they open a paper or turn on the news. They want to know what's going on in the world around them. That, in itself, shows they care. But the problem is, most people say, 'That's terrible,' and then move on. Because they find it too difficult to look at.
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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
