L. Wolfe Gilbert Quotes
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
Quotes to Explore
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
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I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)
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It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
