Don Marquis Quotes
i asked himwhy is it that you are so greatly favoredask rathersaid warty bliggenswhat the universehas done to deserve me
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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I don't want to get fat.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
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From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face.
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i asked himwhy is it that you are so greatly favoredask rathersaid warty bliggenswhat the universehas done to deserve me
