Wendell Berry Quotes
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
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Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.
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Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
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There's always been a trend toward simpler painting and it was bound to happen one way or another. Whenever painting gets complicated, like Abstract Expressionism, or surrealism, there's going to be someone who's not painting complicated paintings, someone who's trying to simplify...
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The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
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You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them. You’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.
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As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
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We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
