James Agee Quotes
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
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When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
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'Love lives forever.'
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You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.
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Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
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Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
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We have some nice pieces to put into the puzzle and a lot of kids who are willing to work to fill the rest of the spots in.
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A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-Memorial from the Soul's eternityTo one dead deathless hour.
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Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
