Wendell Berry Quotes
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
Wendell Berry
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
Larry Hovis
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
Idina Menzel
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Harold Coffin
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Abraham Maslow
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
Verne Troyer
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
Omari Hardwick
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
Francia Raisa
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
Peter Singer
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra
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And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it.
Clifford D. Simak
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Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.
Yvon Chouinard
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
Wendell Berry
