James Thurber Quotes
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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I always forgive, but I never forget.
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Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
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Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
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Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
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I knew I always wanted to sing.
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There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
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All right, have it your way - you heard a seal bark!
