Enoch Powell Quotes
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
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He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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I mean, we're grown-ups now. Allegedly. And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we've grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled. I think it's probably healthy. I mean, little kids don't have to make decisions, unless something's very wrong. Maybe you can't make up your mind as easily, if you feel too much. You know?
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
