Wendell Berry Quotes
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
