Wendell Berry Quotes
Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Time stays, we go.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.
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South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
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I'm not truly embarrassed that, you know, President Bush is from my state, that's not really what I care about, ... Primetime Thursday.
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Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.
