Don Marquis Quotes
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
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My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I think there are ways that perhaps organic partnerships can occur in local geographies with groups that are extremely focused on their communities. That's really how Techstars began, as a grassroots movement in Boulder, Colo., that happened to catch fire and expand around the world.
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Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
