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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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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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 philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
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I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze
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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.
