James Welch Quotes
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
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Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
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There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’
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Shimrod said: 'Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.'Melancthe smiled a cool smile. 'And now?''The child seems to have wandered away.'
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I bought a fur coat with my first pay cheque and it lived better than I did for years.
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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It’s easy-very easy-to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.
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In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
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I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.
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The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
