John Dos Passos Quotes
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
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The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.
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I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever.
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But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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All right we are two nations.
