Edmund Wilson Quotes
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. Guest
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
E. Franklin Frazier
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
Ian MacKaye
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
Jack Antonoff
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
Wendell Willkie
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset Maugham
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
Patricia McBride
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I hate the ugly, hate the old,I hate the lame and weak,But more than all I hate the deadThat lie so still in their earthen bedAnd never dare to rise.
Enoch Powell
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I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.
Chance The Rapper
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Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better.
Louis L'Amour
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One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally.
Barack Obama
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
Ariel Dorfman
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
