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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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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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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I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.
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I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.
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There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music.
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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.
