Walter Scott Quotes
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?
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I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
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"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.
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For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
