Don Marquis Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I write in a small office at home.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager.
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The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
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each generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
