Gene Fowler Quotes
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
Quotes to Explore
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
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Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.
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Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
