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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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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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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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
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i asked himwhy is it that you are so greatly favoredask rathersaid warty bliggenswhat the universehas done to deserve me
