James Branch Cabell Quotes
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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We're all idealistic when young.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!
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My kids are all pretty big and tough and strong, and I don't worry about them being bullied - the reverse, be kind to people and don't ever be a bully yourself, and I think they've followed that.
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up - a sincere one - is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.
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There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
