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 mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
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You go see a great production of 'Romeo and Juliet,' where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.
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I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
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CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.
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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.
